Sailing The British Virgin Islands - The Sequal 06Mar17-13Mar17

Brantley-Dolnich, Coffin-Marietta and Yohanans sailed the BVI aboard Sayang (as Facebook attests) and this is the supplemental documentation. Seven days aboard a 53' sailing yacht was close but awesome. Yohos and we had the smaller front "staterooms," a divided pair of smallish beds and heads usually intended integrated for a single couple - but I'm cheap. NP. Skipper Paul and chef Ratna were very capable, but not "fun" - I chose on size and type of boat and the fact they were owner-operators - somewhat unusual in the BVI. This was a great event and very memorable outing. I sailed one leg as helmsman, helped with raising and lowering the main, and "often" executed sheeting the genoa on a tack - but we didn't need to do that often as we normally only tacked twice on a run and the winches were electric for final trimming - a 50+ foot yacht is a very different set of very similar gear. We flew into 28 knot headwinds over 10 ft seas when no one else had sails up - so cool... Ratna was frowning but Paul was flying. We encountered the Rolex Open around the area on two days - $250M boats built of carbon fiber, including sails! They docked overnight across from where we stayed at The Bitter End on the Aga Kahn's docks. So much wealth was bizarre... but that was just a start as on Norman we anchored next to Richard Branson's literally crappy catamaran and then next to SeaLyon, superyacht rented for the week for $45K. Ratna's Indonesian influenced food was tasty and we consumed copious wines and beers. We snorkled the coolest spots in the BVI and moored in spectacular venues amongst the world's richest folks. The map shows our itinerary; we chose every morning and were inclined to remote spots vs beach bars: 1. Village Cay, Road Town, Tortola, 2. Salt Island - Marina Cay on Great Camanoe 3. The Bitter End on Virgin Gorda 4. Anegada (so remote - we rented one of 5 cars for exploring the island and enjoyed indigenous spiny lobster) 5. The Baths then Mountain Pt on Virgin Gorda, 6. Salt Island diving on the RMS Rhone then Norman Island 7. Green Cay off Jost Van Dyke... then dropped Jim & Mary at West End and returned to Road Town. We saw plenty of stuff along the way. Probably once/twice in a lifetime kindof things as I was not super convincing on "live aboard a yacht" with Kala - though the warmth and seas shined on her brilliantly. BVI has no income tax and no property tax so is a super haven, plus they seem to have kite-surfing, which was very cool.