Click to enlarge (Photo from The Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands 2013-2014 available on www.amazon.ca)
I have been a member of the National Yacht Club in Toronto for about 12 years and a sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has always been on my bucket list. The BVI is a part of an archipelago that includes the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands and is located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico.
It is a sailing Mecca with constant trade winds and line of site navigation. The luscious green islands are surrounded by amazingly clear blue-green water and warm temperatures averaging about 25C throughout the winter months.
So, given the fact that the sailing season ends in October here in Toronto and that winter here is mostly very cold and bleak and snowy, wanting to take a trip to the BVI to go sailing in the middle of winter is kind of a no brainer.
With a little (very little needed) prodding from one of my friends and boat partners at the National we decided that we needed to stop dreaming about this trip and get off our frozen butts and make it happen. Now that we were determined to do this, we needed to decide on a crew because sailing is a team effort and we knew we wanted to have at least 4 people on the crew.
I will get into that topic in the next installment.
Bill
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