TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums British Virgin Islands St Maarten charter boat detained in BVI

".....unsuspectedly taken aboard...." has me scratching my head. It was a booked charter, right?! And the boat arrived in the BVI at 1:00am and the guests went ashore? Why did the captain not anchor out, put up his Q flag and wait to clear in when the C&I office opened in the morning? The captain had to think something was up. As was pointed out in this thread, a 4-day charter from St M to BVI?? Who does that? Was it a round trip charter? If so, even more suspect. IMO the captain and crew are lucky to have made it back to StM.