Cooper has one of the prettiest sunset views in all the BVI. I love taking some personal gawk time on the beach between cocktails and dinner.

Cooper is also one of the most dangerously fickle mooring fields in the BVI, and giving more money to Boatyball for a reserved ball won't change that metric. When the water in Manchioneel Bay is moving with current and tide in one direction, the evening breeze coming through the saddle of Cooper Island is going to create havoc when it whistles down through the field at 90+ degrees to the boats set. Boats which have been sitting pretty to each other are going to take all kinds of ugly sets opposed to each other,. God help anyone moored if ANY boat (s) decided to spend a night on the hook. 3 AM on deck in BVD's or barely-there PJ's setting fenders round and round is just really no fun at all. It isn't all about being back-winded: you'd wish being back-winded was the only issue.

Considering that the night breezes in the BVI can be highly variable in both direction and velocity, especially when not driven by front or squall ??? Overnighting there is actually like cozying up to Freddy Krueger. You can come up smiling in the morning, but when you aren't smiling-it was a long dang night !

Yep, we have a love-hate relationship with Cooper. Since we're never at a loss for good food right from our boat galley, we've put Cooper on the short list of places OK to bypass. No one seems to complain when we stay at Anegada for a second night.

OH, where would we go that night instead of Cooper ? We'd try to get a look into Benarus Bay, Norman. We'd think about going out around Cistern Point, Cooper, to Haulover Bay. We'd be perfectly fine taking a ball at Marina Cay, or Key Bay, Peter.
Which brings up another tut-tut about BB--if you let that guaranteed reserved mooring ball decide for you when you'll quit for the day, you pretty much deserve being locked onto a ball when it's too late to change your mind.