We're planning on spending the first half of our four week fall trip in the SVIs and eastern PR. The Frank Virgintino free guide is the most recent writing we've found. The Van Zandt book has a detailed discussion of the west to east routes from Fajardo. The Pavlidas guide gets criticized for inaccurate charts and skinny info. The Street guide was last updated in 1995.

We are bringing the NOAA paper charts and chart books to augment our aging Navionics charts on our chart plotter. Backups are Navionics, Garmin apps on ipad/iphone and a handheld Garmin GPS. We'll plot our routes on paper with compass first.

The best resources have been the trip reports and local knowledge. The CYOA folks have done this exercise many times, Capt. Jay and Kimber on here. I'm looking forward to reading Twangers report.

This is our first trip outside of the Chesapeake and the VIs, so we're taking things pretty conservative with a lot of respect for weather.

Cheers, RickG