I see the future and it's smaller...

Some painful ink, this will explain a lot, and Brilliant at Breakfast has a theory...

We've just heard about some political moves to make sailing/cruising/living aboard much more expensive in the USVI...

How expensive you might ask? Well, a quick glance at the new proposed rates would make the USVI a NO FREE ANCHORING zone for anyone who stays over in the USVI. Folks who live aboard in the territory would see an increase (in my boat length niche) in mooring fees of 500% (bigger boats would see increases of 600% & 700%) and that's just the tip of the iceberg as, looking at the whole package, it is something of the death of a thousand cuts sort of thing.

Sadly, the USVI is not alone in getting serious about raising rates to the point where folks simply don't come in unless they have to and then only stay the minimum needed till they can get out of Dodge.

Welcome to the future...

I think we're going to need a smaller boat!

Listening to France Gall (it is Bastille Day after all)

So it goes...