Culebra, PR -- Heineken Regatta

So the people on Kimi Jay (the boat that dragged towards us yesterday) finally arrived back at the boat in the afternoon around 3pm. Actually they dinghied past their boat to visit a friend on another boat and didn't even notice that they had dragged and were less than a boat length in front of us. I had to shout to the lady, "Hey! Is that your boat?". When she said yes, we told them what happened and they picked up both anchors and moved. We waited for a couple hours, expecting that they might return our anchor and rode with a thank you, but that didn't happen so Kevin dinghied over to them to pick it up. He got a quick "thanks" from the guy but that was it. Oh well. We didn't do it purely out of the kindness of our hearts; if we had done nothing their boat surely would've hit ours.

The water in Dewey's main harbor is pretty murky and we wanted to give the bottom another good scrub so this morning we moved back over to where we were on our first night on Culebra (we even picked up the same free mooring). It is definitely time for a new coat of bottom paint -- even though we'd just scrubbed the hull a couple weeks ago it was just as bad, barnacles everywhere. We aren't planning to haul out until we get to Grenada, so that means we'll need to scrub the bottom every couple of weeks until we get there so that we don't have a hull coated with growth by the time we do haul.

Originally we had intended to get out of Culebra to avoid the crowds that come here for the Heineken International Regatta. When we moved this morning, we thought we'd seen the last of the regatta (all the boats were anchored in Dewey). But sure enough, around noon we saw one boat come around the corner and pretty soon there were thirty others charging along right behind it. Seems that the big boats race around the whole island, while the dinghies just race in the harbor. So we were treated to a great view of the race, every boat went past ours on it's way around the island. Some of them even aimed right for our stern and then tacked (turned away) at the last minute. We weren't too worried though since these crews seemed to know what they were doing. Except the one that went around us and came within a few feet of the reef near the island. Some of the coral heads come up within a few feet of the surface so I was biting my nails but they managed to turn just in time.

Where we are:
Location=Culebra, PR
Lat=18 19.806
Lon=65 19.988