ROLLY NIGHT IN CHARLOTTE AMALIE

0130 hours January 14, 2015, Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas Island, USVI: We woke with the boat rolling significantly. We were anchored heading in to the wind with our bow pointed toward Yacht Haven Grande Marina. When we went to bed two cruise ships lined one behind the other had been on our starboard side toward the entrance to the Harbor.  They had both left in the night and the swell was rapping around the end of the breakwater behind where the cruise ships had been moored and, with out the protection they provided, was hitting us directly on our starboard beam.  We turned on the deck lights and deployed the rocker stopper system which dampened the roll. 

The next morning we raised the anchor and headed back to St John. The night before we had investigated leaving the boat at Yacht Haven Grande Marina during our up coming trip back to California. It's a fantastic marina. It's also the most expensive we have seen. Our boat would have been $4.00 per ft per night. Boats over 150 ft are $8.50 per ft per night. 

Arriving at St. John we anchored off Caneel Bay where we prepared the boat to spend the next three weeks at Sapphire Bay Marina  on St. Thomas where we had spent our first week in the Virgin Islands when we arrived in December. We headed across the channel that separates St. John and St. Thomas islands the next morning, and with the help of the Harbor Master Niles Pearsall we managed to get back in the same first slip in the Marina we had previously been in, notwithstanding the 20 nm wind and 3 ft swell that was rolling directly into this small harbor. 

We left Catalina Sunshine two days later to catch up with business and family in California where we stayed for the next three weeks.