Almost a week ago we lost our dinghy! We were motor sailing from Tortola to St. Thomas when all of a sudden Sasha called to me "Oh no, the dinghy's gone!". We turned around and spent 4+ hours looking for it. We sailed back to Nanny Cay, all the while factoring the wind and current to try and figure out how fast and what direction the dinghy might be floating along. We stopped and talked to local fishermen hoping they might have seen it. We put out calls on the radio to let everyone know that it was floating out there. We called the Coast Guard, St John National Parks, friends on every island to ask them to keep an eye out. No sign of the dinghy yet.
How did we lost the dinghy??
The tow line snapped and neither of us noticed.
Below is the tow line, and the bright yellow bit is where it broke.
After four days of using borrowed paddle boards to get around (with groceries and laundry) and still no word on our missing dinghy we decided to look around for a new dinghy and we found a boston whaler priced to sell.
The whaler was on her trailer on Water Island so we spent two days scraping and painting the bottom and waxing the topsides before we slipped her in the water this morning.
A sneak peak at the interior. More photos to come.
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