We have been enjoying our last few weeks here at the York River Yacht Haven getting the boat in good order and having a mailing address for packages. The marina has a great rate this time of year. Our current plans are to wait out the remaining weeks of hurricane season here and head south to Georgia during the first week of November and then to Florida in December. Boats are currently staging in this general area for the Salty Dawg Rally to Antigua, but due to limitations on Caribbean inter-island travel we are going to pass on that. We have found the Eastern Caribbean is at its best when you can island hop. Hanging out in one island for prolonged periods takes much of the adventure out of it. The Bahamas have eased on their inter island travel after entry with a negative test so that is the focus of our research for January. We have been researching cruising routes in Eleuthera and the Exumas that accept our draft. It looks like we definitely will not be doing many overnight sails in those shallow waters! We have also been researching the ARC Europe in May that goes from Virginia to Bermuda to The Azores to Portugal. Our thinking is the Pacific Islands will remain locked down most of next year until a vaccine is widely available worldwide whereas European countries are allowing yacht check-in with tests currently.
