Nice sail, crappy stomach flu

Friday June 1st, Cane Garden Bay to Great Harbour, Jost Van Dyke (6.8 miles)

In the morning we got some provisioning (mostly snacks) and of course more ice.

After which we dropped the ball around 11am and have a nice brisk sail over to Great Harbour, Jost Van Dyke. The trip is just 6.8 miles and we arrive around 12:10 (didn't write it down). We drop the anchor in about 25ft of water. It was overcast with 10-15 knot winds which made it hard to see the anchor. We let the boat settle in after letting out a decent amount of rode. (Anchor line and chain for you land-lubbers) We decide to snorkel the anchor and find that the anchor is NOT snubbed in the sand but rather just hooked on a large rock. This does not make me feel comfortable, so we pull up the anchor and motor over to another location. We find 20ft of water with sand and let out what we believe to be 150ft of chain. Again we snorkel the anchor and can clearly see it is dug in and have a decent amount of chain snaked about on the sea bed.

After feeling comfortable about the anchor, we clean up and head in to Great Harbour for lunch. I'm still not feeling well, but decide to try to eat anyhow. We had no set plan once we dinked in, but ended up walking left from the dinghy dock and shortly found ourselves sitting at Corsairs. We sit at the bar and meet the owner, Vinny. He talks us into getting a "Margarita Bucket" and it ends up being pretty good and a great deal. I think the bucket and bottle of tequila came to $15. It outputs like 7 -10 glasses of margaritas. Unfortunately I was having trouble getting the drinks down, but not to bad. I have been popping "antacids, Pepto and Pepcid" like they fell out of a pinata, but nothing is really helping.



Vinny is from NY and bought the bar back in '02 i think....we chat with him for some time, a great guy and a great salesman. He talks us into having lunch there and well, we do. He was right about the margarita bucket and he was also right about the lunch. Everyone's meal was really good.



We sit at the bar again and have a lengthy discussion about Absinthe. It's what van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway used to drink and has a bit of allure to it since you can't get it in the USA.


Do you think Vinny likes the Absinthe?.... We head out for Foxy's and tell Vinny we promise to be back later. He tries to get us eat dinner there as well, but we already made plans to eat on the boat.



We walk down to Foxy's, do a little shopping and drink from our bucket of margaritas.

We head back to Kokomo at 3:50pm. Later on Josh and I make a trash run and pick up 2 more bags of ice.

My stomach is feeling like hell by now and wish I hadn't eaten lunch. Eating seems to make it worse.

The rest of the crew prepare dinner and eat aboard Kokomo, while I try to chill on the "tramp".

Around 8:15pm we all dink back in and head over to Corsairs. I felt ok when I left the boat but as soon as I got off the dinghy, I started to feel pretty sick. Cin, Pam and Josh head over to Corsairs and I tell them that I'm going to go for a walk. Walking seemed to make things a little better.

After a while of roaming around I head back to Corsairs and find my crew. I sip on some ginger ale and watch everyone else get nutty. Vinny talks Josh into a $10 shot of the "red" Absinthe. The "green" was like $5 and the "black" was $30 I think.

We decided to head down to Foxy's to check out the scene. It too was rather quiet there. My crew was in party mode while I sipped on my ginger ale, so I decided to go back to Corsairs, chill and watch Pirates of the Caribbean that was playing on the television. I was felling like death.

At 11pm the movie was over and Corsairs closed up ( I was the only one there). I went to the dinghy dock, sat and waited for Cindy, Pam and Josh. They arrived about an hour later.

Got back to Kokomo, they made Nachos.....I curled up in the fetal position on the "tramp".

~Bryan