BVI: 7 Day Sailing Trip (KYD Special)
Welcome to the BVI! This is amazing! British Virgin Islands, that's what it is, you got to take a few planes to get here no matter where you're coming from but ... what we're doing is renting a boat for 10 days with our friends and we're super excited to bring you with us one two three We're headed into rough seas. I'm giving her all she's got! Charlie would love this i don't think so you ever seen the Cooper's cheat at a card game before oh yeah yeah so do i every time i play with him yeah he's not my friend all right so we're just about to meet up with Stew, otherwise known as Jim and you know Jim because we've been sailing with him before so this boat knock on wood is it's not been skunked well that's what i read in the reviews and Jim on our call kind of like a prep call yeah like a little text he said he only want to be referred to his captain well done we saw your we saw you guys i don't know if i like you recording i'm not used to this yeah what are you doing what are you doing here because i've been dealing with this crap each other right now what is this is this some sort of gopro stand off? now there was no clear winner of this so-called gopro standoff but bill is recording for a very good reason you see Bill and Stew are partners in this cirrus sr22 turbo and they recorded their flight down to the BVI this is some beautiful country down here i'll tell you that fifth hour they flew from Michigan to savannah Georgia then they went off to Eleuthera Bahamas puerto plata dominican republic san juan puerto rico where we caught a glimpse of them taxiing out to the runway and ultimately landed at beef island in tortola bvi just confirmed terrain terrain pull up pull up obstacle ahead obstacle ahead i wonder if they can hear that over this thing all right, we're good. Plane: 500.
now we've learned that there are many pilots within the kyd community and if you're one of them and decide to fly your plane down to the bvi well just do your research ahead of time seriously we have violated some type of customs requirement in every country between here in the united states and there are a lot of them we're going to go to a new country it's like oh wait we don't have we have every form we have we have this thing we have that thing we don't have that form do you yeah it's gonna be a fun time here like food and sewer just so you know combo it's like an rv now i can fix the sewer yeah come on let's go through these rooms yes finally some proper audio that gopro is driving me crazy it's good to just kind of say hi to everybody and show around but the audio is just terrible and i don't know so anyway so i guess trish and i are taking this room we're going to do a proper boat tour later there's so much to cover from provisioning to the route to who everybody is and how long we're going to be out here and all sorts of cool stuff so wait for Trish to come down here and and say hey i feel like a kid on Christmas i am so excited i have to tone it down because i look like i'm like maybe drinking too much or something but i'm not i'm just excited i'm so thrilled to be here and we're here with our friends because that makes everything better so um we did pick a larger room so that's maybe for a tall single person and this is for two people yeah and we have our own bathroom yes it's very exciting are you excited i'm trying to take deep breaths you're assigning roles the captain is designing a role to fix the mates okay so far Howard tells a story about no one she is on a sailboat so that's that's that's knowledgeable right yeah that's very knowledgeable sailboat you sailed in races bill knows what sheets to go on beds are okay yeah already and you said you know we're on so so far howard and you are neck and neck for one first first mate okay and bill's the third main question so far bill spills third mate um what's the captain do captain drives the black captains the captains they take you know make sure everyone's safe and secure okay all right a little bit of like oh just like i was crazy well the snow storm Michigan excitement to see that lady that's how life's supposed to be she's really special so you know she looks that way yeah oh my gosh everybody's arrived we're all together so now we only have like a few minutes we're gonna go get our flippers and our mask oh really and we're gonna roll out of here look at the tan this is called a bare boat charter basically you bring your own captain crew provisions and fuel in other words you get just the bare boat but we're not alone on this sale we have a sister boat being captained by jim's brother mike i suppose the proper term would be buddy boat or in this case it's a brother boat no i'm involved the british virgin islands consist of the main islands of tortola virgin gorda anagada yost van dijk along with more than 50 other smaller islands and keys making it an incredible destination for cruising our official night one was at cooper island and then we make our way to the bitter end yacht club at virgin gorda with a stop at the famous baths along the way we made a three hour sale to anagada and spend two nights before taking a straight shot to yoast van dyke the home of the soggy dollar and foxy's most people will tell you that no bvi trip is complete without visiting willy tees at norman island there's an expression in sailing if you wait until you're ready you'll never leave the dock up to me up to me up to me here second time over here up so you didn't touch the rudders there you go thanks take your time let's go straight bye guys thank you thank you i wasn't quite ready for that i'll be quite honest with you just take your time captain did i pull the bumpers down yeah bumpers uh go up in order to organize your tank up there all right what's the plan for today where we're going today we're going to cooper island shore john it looks like it's about i don't i can't understand this thing yet i got my course on here but maybe it's the way he taught me sure wouldn't want to fly my plane this way abandon ship anyway so uh we're coming in here to cooper island and we've reserved a ball what's it called calm and so we wouldn't reserved a ball for forty dollars mooring ball and uh it's ball 52 as a matter of fact yeah and we got the girls up there and howard up there everyone's up there so we can hook up to it so this is where we're gonna stay the first night right yeah on this ball this is it and then we're gonna learn the systems and yeah get going hopefully yeah we're on cooper island this welcome to cooper island cooper any of any affiliation wendy cooper no but i'm going to go me i am going to go meet my kin in a few minutes hey wendy did you bring the euchre cards the mark's gonna cry cards i got three decks got it back up back up no no he's going into the wind so he's getting pushed it is critical that howard gets us on his first shot though right there right there pressure pressure i got out of the way he's got it yeah slide how many people is okay okay we got a mooring ball all right so we got in here we got the mooring ball but we weren't really set up with the bridle and everything so there was a little bit of chaos who watched the youtube video i'm having a mooring ball you had the ball got it straightened out now we're getting the line set up we're going to come in on a second attempt and and uh we'll get it straightened out i'm still actually learning how to record these videos because i don't know where the cameras go i don't know the transitions i don't there's a lot everyone else but it's kind of fun too hey trisha yeah can you come here real quick sure yes i got it hey this camera is soaking wet can you go dry it off sure wow what do you got here bill little uh sling scuba gear thing yeah where'd you get this i ordered it my goal was to get like my spear gun yeah catch fish for everybody and bring back sustenance for the group but then i realized that there's a 15 000 fine for spearing fish with a scuba gear and that's an expensive dinner yeah so we'll just get over there tonight so i just got a dinner restoration instead i could buy everybody dinner and still save a lot of money all right uh and then did you also get a big tank that you can refill this yeah awesome yeah so i can just fill this little tank off the big one nice i really should have a way of looking at this though but i'll know when i'm running out i guess yeah well you won't be able to breathe and you'll know you're out yeah as soon as i can't breathe i'm going to come up we're on cooper island sometimes you think it's going to be all rainbows or something sometimes you think it's going to be all sunshine but sometimes you need a rainbow and in order to have a rainbow you gotta have a little rain so we brought our jackets we're prepared but we're going to this cute little restaurant look at this and my friend's ready to party this is bvi special cheers we have them good morning it's absolutely wonderful the weather is perfect we got a good night's sleep the view is outstanding so we're gonna have a cup of coffee and then we're gonna get our day started morning briefing yeah is there any is there a morning briefing yeah we're gonna sail to the uh the baths oh good motor to the baths yeah okay how many bags we own nice um let's take a four wendy seems to be impervious to seasickness she's just in there looking straight down buttering pans getting ready for breakfast i'm glad does this bother you it's not bad but i can't be inside looking down i also can't be looking into the lcd screen i learned that homer alaska don't look at this you guys still have the wine hey stew um i mean captain the captain of the boat in front of us what he ended up doing i mean just just so you know he took all of his crew in by the dinghy came back and then he swam in yeah yeah yeah that's what that captain did that's probably because their crew did a nice job on the mooring ball it's rewarding so um this captain's gonna get shoved overboard get it switched to the top there it is oh thank you done how do you like to turn this off or it's all the way out is it all i think it's all the way up oh cool leave it to an rv cook i have no i'm clueless i just have never seen a rainbow look like a sunrise well we're really high on the ocean right now we're just getting the tip of it that's amazing it just gets brighter and brighter if you put your sunglasses on it's insane because you can see the top okay listen hash browns eggs we've got a little chocolate there's hash browns in there yeah hash browns eggs and then a little um sausage some veg cheese oh yeah it's a like a five layer delight awesome it's trisha's idea i mean good job wendy where are you right now i think i've seen this movie look with no editing magic i promise this is five minutes later it's just crazy how fast that storm will just come and go and look how beautiful it is now so we're gonna get in the dinghy i don't know what camera i'm gonna bring probably just the gopro i don't want to take any chances because i don't know if you can see but there's an area to tie up the dinghy's right over there so we're gonna go hook up the dinghy tie the thingy and then we're going to go into the bath so the baths are like these big boulders area that reminds us a lot of carefree Arizona but you can kind of walk in there and uh it's pretty pretty neat definitely a highlight of the bbi so we're excited to go over there and check it out but everything although the learning curve is steep and you know we're making a bunch of newbie mistakes and things are taking some time overall it's actually going pretty good hey trace the water the water couldn't be better huh it's a perfect temperature oh my gosh yeah they just said mother nature this is the best this is so cool these granite boulders stacked wow you could just see the weather time go down them it's just so neat sony i feel like the trip has actually begun now we've gotten off the boat we're swimming around we're seeing cool things just slipped and shattered the gopro which means this is my dry gopro the only problem with that is my other one is already the dry grow pro so i know i have no wet gopro i'm glad you're okay i can't believe you're not more angry oh foreign it's crazy you know i said this place reminds me of carefree arizona but all this cacti around me now it really reminds me and there's just cactus look at that just everywhere going up the up the mountain and everything it's just crazy so very cool here i was as good or better than any video i've ever watched of it sometimes you go places and you think this is gonna be so amazing and you get there you're like not so much the baths live up to better better than the video better than a video mm-hmm and and i got a little war wound yeah i know it's there's a bump all around getting into the dinghy yeah but i got in that's gonna leave a mark it already did yeah yeah no that was a slightly devastating um excursion well yeah i'm sorry i didn't even say you you you fell hurt your hand ruined your camera how'd you kids how'd you guys it's all going down that's where we're going how far away is it three point four nautical miles yeah that's not very far no barely enough time to get the fishing lines in the water yeah but the same fish comes back night so we made it over here to this island in the dinghy so we can do some snorkeling over here and uh this boat probably didn't land here probably got moved over here from the hurricane a couple years ago which was devastating this area and then right after the hurricane before they could even get any like back on their feet covet hit so i was talking to kelly our cab driver about it and i said well what did you do like how did you get through that time and he said we prayed mon we prayed that you guys would come back so it was it was like i don't know how to describe it when someone tells you that it's just like you're kind of like grateful that you're here i mean i know it looks like we're on vacation but to vacation to us is livelihood to a lot of people on the island so it's just an interesting perspective of the how the whole thing works to be right out here i don't even have to put music on it i got the music already integrated it's so good it goes with this view it's so good if you've never been here you need to come hey this is a super bowl i might actually remember watching mill it's quite a place to watch the super bowl i'll tell you bottom of the third inning though you really got to pay close attention to that that's when all it's all going to go down at the bottom of the third this is intentional obviously this is the super bowl menu look at this super bowl super menu wow what is it show people what there is fritters and tartar sauce crispy calamari oh calamari fillet of snapper what hazel marinated you got to get into it i'm getting past sleepy so we're gonna go in and we're gonna come back to the then we're going to point the same direction though the big boat is and we're going to be right behind the aqua boat yeah okay it's going to be fantastic so i think that you can um rent scooters and you can go around the island and there's different places to hang out on the beach i mean i think it's going to be one of our trip highlights yes i do i do believe that right now we want one fruit salad we got we figured out how to light the oven the stove we've got all kinds of stuff so um we're reheating remember cook once eat twice yeah so we made a huge uh casserole breakfast casserole yeah reheating some of that we're making a fruit salad we're gonna put out a little you know breakfast charcuterie i like it hey captain nice job there huh feeling good now yeah relax now yeah all right we made it over here to the dock the only reason we have to dock is because we're not sure if the water maker is working or not it could actually be a faulty gauge so that might make you feel better in your rv that you buy brand new rv and the sensors aren't working here's a million dollar boat and its sensors don't work either so all right so now the name of the game is uh my it's mike he's jim's brother mike has been sailing for a long time races every week actually juan if you're familiar the the mac which is the michigan race that he won the mac i think several years ago so but you'll see jim you'll see a bunch of boats anchored in there and you'll see sticks oh you can see you see some buoys right there it might show up on the chart plotter yeah something gets screwed up it's not my fault no no jim has already decided that if anything happens it's our fault we covered that oh yeah yeah yeah well now i'm involved though now i can be blamed everything grab that line sometimes and sometimes the clipboard i don't know her name julie oh that's julie okay yeah really hey student no hey what's the what's the woman's name on the love boat with the clipboard julie julie julie mills yeah i got it i got julie cruz director that's me right okay so what are your cruise directing today um well it's valentine's day very special dinner you have to order a head and um they want to know what do you want lobster mahi mahi ribeye there's all kinds of goodness we got a big lobster pile really what are we having a lot lobster one monkey and one lobster so we can get it you gotta order it in by noon what time is it um i don't know it's time did trying to call the lobster man oh you get some lobsters i want some lobsters okay um but you know what we'll do we'll rent scooters and we'll go scoot her on over we'll scoot on over and say hi and tell them our order we're going what we're doing lobster trap for dinner yeah but we're right now around the on scooters right now going to sleep check the island out the window we've decided we're putting our order in in person we're gonna go up there tell them what we'd like this evening and then we're going to go hunt down some scooters i know they can be found tomorrow morning run some scooters yeah maybe is there a map or places to go and in good spots along the way yes it's 45 a day okay 8 30 to 4 30. there's a map right here you can go around the whole island there's a nice little scuba diving spot right here that she says you should do in the morning as a group and then right here so you end up at the end of the day right there no way she takes visa mastercard american express nice and bill's checking the storage of the scooter so i say scootering is something we do tomorrow and we can snorkel we can go to some snorkeling spots. oh, we're gonna we're gonna scooter tomorrow yeah we still have all day though well it's an all-day thing and we've got to get an early start so i think it's a little late i think today we should go like do what the other boat's doing swim bring the mat out chill out hang out and then go have lobster dinner that's fine with me does it get any does any better than that no I'm gonna get me a frou-frou drink.
Party started. yes, it is, clearly that's how much just how much let's go get the pad out i want the pad you know we got all this we got all these fancy we gonna put music on yeah yes yes there we go it's pretty interesting to be hanging out here because everybody's on the same program there's a couple full-time live-aboard people but mostly everybody's on the same program and that program is music dancing jumping in the water floating mats talking to the people that roll up getting ice lobster we're going in for lobster tonight for dinner it is pure vacation mode here let me hold the camera so you can see the miss lovely Tricia because she's got dressed up for dinner happy love day it's valentine's day yes so we're gonna go out for lobster hey we should probably get in there a little early so that we can see them bring the lobster in okay don't you think that'd be kind of nice yeah all right let's go try top are fourteen fifteen is it about 15 pardons they're 15 yes um they're one of those two taxes for us we have reservations there's a whole lobster coming but i know you're not super in the last year i'm in those lobster when will and sue are deconstructing it and and melting the butter for us but we'll see we'll see on tonight oh my gosh we had a fabulous night but it's time to turn in so there's a big debate drinks and a fire or boat in bed i bought boat and bed come on come on come on don't be a party cooper party started i mean campfire in the caribbean there it is where are you going okay we're gonna go wherever that damn music's playing huh are you going no you got floss in your hands you're not trying to clean up so my my thought process is this we could stay yeah wait wait i wanna hear what you thought my thought process is this we could stay here and go to bed and we'll say i remember that night and and the bvi we went to bed at 10. i got a really good night's rest that was awesome yeah i was so well-rested back up at 6:30. i had like three cups of coffee we're seven is awesome over there we have no idea what's going to happen we go have one drink come back and say did you see this and we will probably remember it yeah at a minimum or we go there we end up on another boat if that's the case the phones don't work very good and we'll just i don't know we'll find him we'll find you i mean let's put it this way let's let's have a backup plan how about let us assume our phones our dad are in the bottom of the ocean all right if we were to everybody sailboat and i doubt we will but if we were to never ever ever buy a charter boat ever never never ever never ever ever never ever ever i think everybody already knew everybody already knows that that's like not buying a rental car wait what what have our groceries we couldn't get you know what listen the important stuff the meat yeah meat and beer there's always something that is exciting that happens on a trip this is our exciting thing this morning that we have to resolve wendy's not here yet the other boat has no luggage and we have half our groceries missing so we're going to boom boom boom solve all the problems you guys forget your shopping bags yeah we have shopping bags wait oh i personally don't see what the big deal is something happens to jim i'm just going to take over exactly
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