We left the BVI's mid afternoon when the tide was high and the sun was to our back allowing us to see the coral and shallow water better. This time we paid very close attention to our track. When you see the waves breaking 30' from the boat it's a bit never racking.

For those of you aren't used to reading navigation maps. See all the red squares? All those are coral heads that are very close to the surface. We needed to stay between the green and red buoys. VERY TIGHT SQUEEZE. We were on our way to Antigua, but decided to have a stop over on the island of Fourchue. 90 NM away. It was a 20 hour passage, but allowed us to rest before going onto Antigua. When we arrived at Ile Fourchue there was a strong off shore breeze.  They have buoys to protect the seas floor. As I was trying to grab the buoy, to attach the moorning lines, the winds kept blowing the boat off the bouy. Blair was getting frustrated as he can't see the buoy and I can't yell at him and tell him exactly how far away left or right of the buoy we are. Finally another sailing couple came over and helped us with attaching our mooring lines to the buoy. At this point we've decided to get headsets that will allow us to communicate better . Their called "Marriage Savers". 

We rested and took a short walk on the island that day before heading off the next day. It was interesting to see a desert island with these cool Turks Cap cactus were very cool. We could also see St. Maareten and St. Barts. The island is a nature reserve, but fankly the underwater life was extremley limited. 

After a rolly night at anchor, we were off again sailing toward Antigua.