July 1. Immer noch in St. John

A strong tropical wave over the last couple of days has finally past and this morning we were anxiously waiting to listen to Chris Parker's weather prediction. And he confirmed our fear. It's a no go again as heavy and gusty winds are sweeping through our area, which is caused by a high pressure and low pressure system working against each other. Therefore the sea state has no chance to settle and knowing we have to plow right into the weather would be a very miserable trip. So the question is, do we want to get beat up across the Anegada Passage and Saba Banks, which is roughly a 24 hours trip, or do we just sit tight in our protected anchorage and wait out the next tropical wave. Tomorrow the weather should be OK for just one day, but not enough for us to do the crossing to St. Kitts, so we have two other options to sail to either Tortola, the British Virgin Islands, which is just around the corner or head to St. Croix which would give us a bad angle again to head towards the Leeward islands. Last night as we had pizza and movie night on Welsh Rover we were discussing the Thorny Passage and if we would do it again. We all simultaneously came to the conclusion that we would NEVER sail this stretch again, it's just too rough and unenjoyable, not to mention the wear and tear on boat and crew. We are meeting with Welsh Rover in an hour to make new war plans, lets see what we will come up with. To be continued........