In this video "Wall of Squalls" we finish our stay at Christmas Cove, St Thomas, then leave for a one day sail to the south for St Croix for a change of atmo...

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hi I'm Noel and I'm Dan and we're

sailing balachandra Burt from Halifax

Nova Scotia and now we're in the cutted

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yeah but grabbed a mooring ball here in

Christmas Cove and the mooring balls

here are kind of unique they're like a

screw that goes down into the rock

bedrock of the sand or something and

digs in and so all you see if this

little spike I got stuck out of the

seabed and the mooring lines coming up

from that we were on the Anchorage last

night and we saw one of these mooring

balls open up so we snagged it really

quick and we're hooked down there pretty

good and yeah it's nice

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pizza pie is a pizza joint that is run

out of a boat

they only anchor in Christmas Cove

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you and republish yes and would love

that thank you

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nice

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boy

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pretty bad

did you steal pizza from dad right out

of his hand

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we just left Christmas Cove st. Thomas

and we're heading south towards st.

Croix now it's about a seven eight hour

sail for us today at the speed we're

just heading down there to have a change

of scenery really here at the US Virgin

Islands where we're checked in there's a

few languages we can go to but

we hadn't been to st. croix yet so we're

gonna go check that out anyway it's a

good day for sailing got up pretty early

we expected some wind but there should

be someone later hopefully and now we're

bumping along at about four knots here

so it's not terrible

we got three nasty squalls coming up all

in a line between us and st. Croix it's

funny cuz we can see st. Croix right

behind the squalls in like a barrier of

bad weather I thought there might be

some squalls so we were kind of prepared

already we put one reef in the main and

we partially throw them the jib so that

we can handle this we've done this

before now the Caribbean

there's squalls here all the time so you

kind of get used to it after a while

what's most important in a situation

like this is to reefer Leo I've said it

in the past but I saw the wind's spike

about three or four knots

I saw these squalls coming and I knew it

was time to reef you don't want to wait

until the squalls darn near on you

because at that point you're in it and

the wind is blowing really hard and

you're trying to bring in your sails

they're whipping all over the place

everybody's uncomfortable it's not good

and if the sea state builds at all

that's not good either so it's really

important just see the squalls get

nervous you're starting to get close get

the reefs in get it done you know and

then when you're past the squalls

take them out again so like this one in

the main we just put it in kind of rough

gray now because we figure after this

well we still have a lot of ground to

cover we'll probably pull that reef back

out

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so we got a little time lapse of the

squall from start to finish we saw wind

speeds up to 28 knots in that squall

which isn't too bad the last squall that

we went through we saw wind speeds up to

38 knots but we didn't have our sails up

for that 128 it's a lot but with the

reefs in we were able to manage it okay

we were on a beam reach right through

the whole thing we leaned over pretty

good but it wasn't too uncomfortable

just as fast as the squall came on it

went away and we took our reefs out back

to sailing without any reefs in we got

st. Croix on the horizons looking good

we're past halfway there already we're

in about 11 12 knots of wind and we're

sailing at about six knots which is

really great so

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Christiansted

in st. Croix features plenty of

Victorian Dutch architecture and

charming colonial churches most shops

and buildings were shut down due to the

coronavirus but we were able to walk

around and grab a few essentials

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