Interesting report. While I have dreams of taking up sailing, our feet are firmly planted on either USVI or BVI shores because my dear husband is not a boat person. However, I so enjoy reading about everyone's sailing adventures,

Your description of the holy terror gave me flash backs of our time spent with a holy terror years back as guests at a friend's beach house. I could. It believe the behavior either.

Did the non-dish washers think it was the captains job to do the dishes? Sadly, a question that will likely go unaswered..........

I stumbled across a blog where a woman wrote about her disappointing "crewed" charter that was actually not a crewed charter. She didn't realize she was suppose to be pulling her own weight and felt like an @ss afterwards because she made such a poor impression on the captain and first mate.