Reef early and reef often. Sail the standard counterclockwise routing. The usual anchorages will be fine. The wind direction is slightly N of East so the Anegada anchorage should also be good. It will be a fun sail over and back down to Jost. For most of the week the forecast is not over 25 knots. The south end of the SFD will not be fun and if you go around to the main entrance to the N sound you will have about 90 minutes of not much fun. Other than that it won’t be to bad. If you have inexperienced people on the boat make sure they get a complete briefing about never uncleating a line, sheet or rope they don’t know 100% for sure is not unloaded or controlled. Make sure they understand that unless you’re on a very small charterboat they will not effect the outcome of a potential collision with a dock or other object unless they are willing to be a human fender which can be quite painful. Use of regular fenders is a better option. Have a person standby with a extra fender that can place it where needed for a unexpected outcome.
Picking up Moorings balls make sure everyone understands their roll and that the hooker understands to never grab the mooring pennant by the loop. On windy days unpleasant choices occur from people doing that. Grab the pennant like your picking up a snake with a snake stick.
When anchoring make sure the helmsman controls the boats backward motion as chain is payed out to the correct scope. Keep the boat into the wind and use the motors to ease it back slowly.

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Last edited by GeorgeC1; 01/06/2020 09:31 AM.