Anegada to Trellis Bay Sail

After the service project the girls headed back over to the anchorage in front of Reef Hotel and started washing paint off from they day in the clear waters of the mooring field. Once the girls had finished their ocean showers, they set out from the mooring field and once again navigated the tricky channel out of Anegada. Once underway they strapped into their harnesses and sailed downwind to Beef Island where we are spending the night on mooring resting after a long service project in the sun and a 16 nautical mile ocean sail.

Checking Navigation on the way down from Anegada

Grinding on the Working Jib on the Sail from Anegada

Triangulating our position on the way out of Anegada

Service Project at Methodist Church on Anegada

The girls headed to shore at 8am this morning and headed into the Settlement on Anegada and met up with Romalia Smith, the minister of the church. The girls brought paint up from Tortola that we had picked up prior to their arrival for the project. We helped Romalia paint the new fence that they had just put up at our last visit to Anegada. Romalia told us that she had been praying for help and had been having trouble getting the fence painted. The girls were happy to help her and give back to the community that has been so receiving of them on their visit to the British Virgin Islands. The girls were also able to see how the people of Anegada live in the Settlement, a sharp contrast from their own lives.  After we finished painting, the children we painted with gave a steel drum recital for us in the Church.

The girls carrying the paint down the dock at Anegada Reef Hotel

Painting the fence with the local children from the Church

The girls with Romalia Smith and the children after painting

Steel Drum Concert in the Church

Delaney Reflecting on the Service Project

Kaite and Shaina painting the base of the fence 

Katie  Reflecting on the Service Project during the 16 nautical mile ocean sail