Our First Real Mishap
8 27.958 N 64 25.260 W Beata and I have had at least our fair share of technical issues, equipment failures and often costly greenhorn mistakes, but that is the cruising life and we knew to expect such things when we decided to undertake this adventure. Knock on wood, we have yet to drag anchor or kiss a reef! Recently, we did have our first real mishap. With hindsight, I would call the experience moderately hair raising and good practice for if and when things ever get really bad. It was late in the day and we didn’t find an open mooring in Christmas Cove on Great Saint James located between St. Thomas and St. John (U.S. Virgin Islands), so we decided to just night sail to St. Croix. The forecast was for 17 knots on the beam and Christiansted Harbor is less than forty miles from there so that would likely put our arrival time in the middle of the night. Having already been to St. Croix a couple weeks earlier, we knew the entry to the harbor is a bit tricky and so the plan was t