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visiting Little Dix by dinghy?
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11/21/2021 08:26 PM
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We are anchored in Long Bay. Wondering if it is possible to visit Little Dix for coffee or lunch by dinghy? Thanks.
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Re: visiting Little Dix by dinghy?
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11/21/2021 09:07 PM
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At dusk we thought we were going to have it to ourselves, then 3 other boats came in and dropped anchor.... all on the larger side. Sail cat, power cat and a yacht (something like "Angeleyes") bordering on superyacht. That one is one of the few large yachts we've seen consistently in the covid dry spell.
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Re: visiting Little Dix by dinghy?
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11/22/2021 06:34 AM
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Long bay is a 5 mile roundtrip. That’s a bit further than I would want to go in a standard charterboat dinghy. If your dinghy will plane with the number of people you want to take might be doable on a nice day. Just the two of us, and with the 15 hp it will plane easily. Is there a dinghy dock? Channel through the reef? Wondering if we will be at all welcome.
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Re: visiting Little Dix by dinghy?
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11/22/2021 08:05 AM
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It’s been a long time since I was in there. You enter on the right and there was a single dock. Don’t know if it survived Irma. We were not welcomed but brought the boat in. Maybe a place Boatyball should look into!
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Re: visiting Little Dix by dinghy?
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11/22/2021 01:09 PM
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Well I called them and was informed that they were booked out for lunch and breakfast had ended so there were no coffee options. Didn't sound very welcome to say the least :-)
I thought I might paddle board there from our anchorage, and I made it as far as Savannah but thought better of going all the way since the return from Tom Tom pt would have been upwind. As it was I was plenty tired from the 4.5 miles round trip. I had already paddled at Mountain Point in the morning and my wife and I snorkeled at the Kodiak Queen.
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