Thanks to Christine’s forecasting with PredictWind we had a super smooth ride all the way from where we left you last week in St. Martin to the US Virgin Islands. 
We left SXM out the drawbridge on the northern French side (Green on the map) for its 17:00 opening and then anchored in the outside bay to enjoy dinner and the sunset. 
We got underway about 20:00 for our overnight 103NM passage timed so that we would arrive in USVI after sunrise.
Mother Nature not only gifted us with calm flat seas but also a near full moon to light our way.
As you can see it was a very exciting white knuckle ride for the crew!
Our timing worked out just right as we arrived at the southern coast of St. John Island just after sunrise.
We headed for Cruz Bay (Red on map below) to check in at the US Customs & Immigration office and anchored just off shore and launched the Tender to go ashore and do all the checking in formalities.  That all went well so we headed back to Möbius to go find a nice spot to anchor for a few days.
Found a great little spot in a small protected harbor on the West side of Great St. James Island (Green on map).  Crystal clear water, not too many neighbors and the Pizza Pi boat anchored nearby.  We stayed there till this morning (Sunday) and then headed over to Yacht Haven marina (dark Blue on map) on the East end of Charlotte Amalie to fill up our water tanks (more on that later).
We blend right in with the other boats on the dock don’t you think??!!
The dock hand was super helpful and we enjoyed chatting with him as we whiled away the few hours it took to fill up two of our water tanks.

After filling up with fresh water, we motored over to the south end of Hassle Island, which was NO hassle at all, and we we are currently anchored here as I write. (dark Blue on map above)
This is the reason we had to go fill up with water today; our watermaker high pressure pump is broken.  Both the Low and High pressure pumps were not wanting to work when I went to start using the watermaker after many months sitting dormant but I was able to get the Low Pressure pump working with just a good cleaning. 
However I wasn’t so lucky with the HP pump as one of the ceramic pistons was broken and so I’ll need to find a way to get some replacement parts sent over.  With a water tank capacity of 7300 L/1900 USG and only Christine and I onboard we can go about six months but with family and guests arriving soon and now ability to make our own water, we needed to head over to the marina to get some fresh water and took on about 2500L/660 USG which should be more than enough till I can get the watermaker working in the next month or two.
Charlotte Amalie is the “Big City” here on St. Thomas and the airport is not too far away so we will be checking out this area for a good spot to anchor when our Grandson Liam and parents fly in on the 22nd.  May head over to check out anchoring spots off of Water Island which Christine has fond memories of in her days chartering on her boat Sunrise when son Tim was just a young boy so fun for him to revisit this and share with his son Liam.

So that brings you up to date with the Good Ship Möbius and thanks so much for taking time to join us on this latest leg of the adventure.  Hope you’ll be back for the next update and in the meantime please leave your comments and questions in the Join the Discussion box below.

Thanks!

-Wayne