This thread has brought back great memories of my wife and I doing a couple of these trips with Mike and Jean (and Mal) on Jeannius round trip from BVI. After leaving past Cooper we were on port tack for the Saints. However, as the wind moved more easterly Mike told us we could stay on port tack but the first land we would see would be South America - we opted to tack and go to St Kitts! During the night we were hard on the wind and in the morning my wife, in a forward cabin, reported the fun of being "levitated" from the bunk coming off some of the waves. What she missed was solid blue water all the way back to the cockpit.

When Mike reports some of his crew more visible while "feeding the fish", well, I represent that remark!!