Starting in Tortola and simply messing around in the BVI   ( about 60 Nautical Miles)

1. DAY ONE. (Half Day) Leave Road Town and head for Cooper Island, overnight on a mooring at Manchioneel Bay. There is a nice little resort here with a bar that has a reputation for making the best bushwhackers in the islands. Relax after your trip and have a good night's sleep on your new home.

2. DAY TWO. Leave your mooring early and head north towards Beef Island, leaving Bluff Point to Port, turn North West towards Marina Key for your next anchorage. One of the the James Bond movies was filmed here and it's an attractive  little place with an anchorage that has nice snorkeling nearby and a "Pussers West Indies" Store. You are also near Trellis Bay with it's inimitable "Last Resort" Bar and Restaurant on a tiny island.

3. DAY THREE. Leave early and head up around Black Point on Scrub Island to the 4 "Dog" islands. All these rocky outcrops have superb snorkeling and diving although the Seal dogs are more suitable for scuba diving than snorkeling. After lunch, head North East to Virgin Gorda's Mosquito Island and enter Gorda Sound carefully using the marked channel next to Colquhoun reef. You have several choices now because the sound is pretty protected so your choices can be based on personal preference, for a more sociable environment, you can take a mooring off the Bitter End Yacht Club or the Saba Rock Resort. For a very quiet anchorage, cut through between Saba Rock and the Bitter End into Eustatia Sound. Head East until you find Deep Bay which is pretty sound proof. For something in-between, try Leverick Bay. They have good moorings and several shops including a nice jewelry store, a dive shop and a provisioning store.

4. DAY FOUR. Leave the Sound and head West and then South West across the Northern coastline of Tortola to either Brewers Bay or Cane Garden Bay depending on your taste for loud music. For a more isolated anchorage use Brewers.

5. DAY FIVE.  Leave early to mid-morning and continue your pilgrimage West towards Jost van Dyke and grab a mooring in Little Harbour or Great Harbour. I tend to favor Little Harbour which has a couple of fair to middling restaurants and several mooring buoys; it's a good base camp from where to do a dinghy run (if the weather is nice and the sea settled) around to Foxy's Bar in Great Harbour or even to White Bay. You can also overnight in Great Harbour but there are no mooring buoys and the holding is lousy. Your call, but Foxy's is a must, it's an institution and a gathering place for yachties from all over the world.

6. DAY SIX. Leave your anchorage early to mid-morning and head South to the Thatch Island Cut and on to what is called the West End. This is a small protected harbour with mooring buoys and several nice and colorful shops. It's worthwhile spending an afternoon on Tortola anyway and this is a good place to start from. Simply pick up a cab or a rental car and do the rounds; cut across the top of the island and descend into Road town. Hang out.

7. DAY SEVEN.  Head out around Frenchman's Cay and head South East towards Norman Island, stop off for some excellent snorkeling at The Indians, which is a rocky outcrop in the middle of the Channel that actually has some mooring buoys around it, and then on to the Bight for a party atmosphere or Benures Bay for a more sedate and isolated anchorage.

8. DAY EIGHT (Half Day) From Norman Island, take a nice leisurely sail across to Road Town and your trip back home.