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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
[Re: YachtReprise]
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12/12/2016 08:09 PM
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You are right. Experience is the most important thing for anchoring.
Maybe you have a different favorite for anchoring when you have wind 20 kts E and swell exactly from east? (we will come frome Sopers Hole where we have to fill up our food storages ...)
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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When the swell rolls around Stoney PT it's usually caused by a N swell. Wind driven chop from the east will be from the opposite direction. I still would not be comfortable there in 20 knots of wind. Not much room to drag. Benures will be fine but plan on being back winded. G
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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12/13/2016 07:52 AM
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White Bay gets hit by the reflection of north swells off of Thatch, Congo, Mingo and Grass Cays north of St. John. The reflected swell is easy to see from the air. On the water you can notice swells with scalloped tops as the crossing swells reinforce and interfear with each other.
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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12/13/2016 08:19 AM
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We love Little Harbor, Peter Island when the Christmas winds blow. Nice very calm spot. We go stern-to and tie-off.
Cheers, RickG
S/V Echoes, 2003 Beneteau 423 Coral Bay, St. John USVI - Grenada (summer)
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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I don't know why Little Harbor is not more popular. It is deep and can be hard to get a good set but we have spent many quiet nights there when it was rough most everywhere else.
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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Sorry, didn't catch that. White Bay Peter Island might be a little iffy. At one time we could get right up in the corner and be assured of a quiet night but they put up all those swim bouys around the good anchorage. Next choice was close to the rocks on the east side just outside the swim area and we were comfortable in a pretty good east swell. A couple of boats out the the west of us were rocking pretty good. Given a choice however I would try for Key Cay first and settle for White Bay if Key had more than one other boat in it.
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Re: 20 kts E/4-5 ft E too much for White Bay (Peter)?
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12/14/2016 01:19 PM
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RickG said: We love Little Harbor, Peter Island when the Christmas winds blow. Nice very calm spot. We go stern-to and tie-off.
Cheers, RickG Just a beautiful anchorage and great swimming. We had three cats rafted up stern-to on Sunday night and it was flat as a pancake back there even though we found 20-30 knots and decent swells in the channel. Fun ride sailing the boats back to Hodges Creek. We did a circuit of BVI-Guadeloupe-Antigua-St.Kitts-St.Barts-BVI and Monday was by far the best wind of the whole trip! This was my first time in the BVIs and if that is pretty typical of the Christmas winds, Little Harbour is a perfect spot.
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