We don’t stay on the boat once it is in the boatyard.  Here at Nanny Cay, we decided to try an Air B & B that was a five-minute walk from the boatyard.  It was a one-bedroom apartment with a full kitchen and family room.  And, it had a washer and dryer which was much appreciated because we had about ten loads of laundry to do.  The internet worked well too (better than the internet at Nanny Cay).  Every morning, starting around 3a, we were serenaded by roosters.  We think their internal clocks were off. 

Unfortunately, the apartment only had a room air conditioner in the bedroom.  So, it was a challenge being in the apartment during the day, as it was quite hot. 

The last two days in Tortola we rented a car.  This enabled us to transport a lot of our baggage off of the boat much more easily than if we had schlepped it to the apartment on foot.  We decided to take one afternoon off to drive around the island a little bit.  We found a large supermarket where we can provision the boat in December, which is great news.  And, we found the hardware store so that Steve can stock up on supplies.  Our car was a little challenged when going up hills.  Steve would have the pedal pushed to the floor and we were not sure that the car would make it up the hills.  Finally, we figured out that if we turned the air conditioning off, the car had a little more power.  We were not going to win any races with the car, but at least we felt a little more confident that it would make it up the hills.

On April 28, we dropped our car off at the airport and flew home.  Actually, we spent the night in San Juan, PR before catching an early-morning flight to Boston.  It had been another great sailing season!