In St. Thomas

Only a two and a half hour ride, and we were in St. Thomas, ready to wait for Sophia. I removed the picture of the two of us because Sophia said we looked very tired. 
We are tired of all the fixings Faraway has had us doing. There is an electrical problem that we have not yet fixed. The alternator stops charging after a certain time with the motor running. Juan changed the regulator settings to allow the batteries to take more charge but we think maybe there is something going on with the solar panel and the fridge as well. Juan missed that class in school so it's really trial and error. The other problem we seem to have fixed is the cap of the strainer over the water intake. It was not sealing properly and we needed to unscrew a butterfly from the top to add a round rubber seal, but the butterfly was stuck and we could not get it to move. We tried to get a mechanic in Culebra with a vyse that would allow us to move it. But we couldn't. Finally we talked to two guys in a boat very similar to ours, but very run down (not as much as the guys though), who had been over to our boat when we anchored, and one of them had some goo that will unglue anything and a good wrench and he did it. Which of course reminded me again of what Joanna always used to say, don't judge a book by its cover (in this case it was much more than just the cover) because they saved us. As soon as we had put the cover back on the strainer, we sailed to Culebrita, and then the next day we just took off to St. Thomas. It was a really good call because we had a very smooth ride but as soon as we got into the port in Charlotte Amalie it started blowing hard. We anchored but did not go into town because we were afraid the anchor would not stand the strong gusts, at times over 25 kts. It blew through the night and the anchor is still holding so in while we will take the dinghy down and explore the town. 
The moon above is the one that got eclipsed.