Day sailing around USVI

[Tmacmi]

We are going to St. John's for a wedding in the first week of December. We are considering combining it with our first time charter.

The general plan is to charter out of St. Thomas and go to Hawksnest Bay on the first full day. From there we'd like to do day sails with family and arrive at different bays while there.

My question is regarding the day sailing. If we sail north to the area between Jost Van Dyke and Hans Lollick, we very quickly cross into BVI Territorial waters.

If we go south around Cruz Bay we would lose a couple hours every day in transit to open sailing.

How would this be managed. I don't know how crossing territorial waters in the VI's works, but here in the Great Lakes the Canadian government is enforcing the borders

Your input is appreciated.

[denverd0n]

Hans Lollick is on the USVI side. Just don't stray too far east of there and you will be fine. In fact, as long as you stay west of Little Tobago it is highly unlikely that the BVI water cops will even give you a second look.


Good luck!