With a week to get to Puerto Rico (from St. Thomas), we developed a cruising plan last night.  The plan was to go from St. Thomas to the SE end of St. John where there is an underwater national park.  From there, we would sail to the West end of Tortolla to Soppers hole.  Then on 1/26, we would sail north to Jost Van Dyke. The next day would be back to St. Thomas for the night and then to Calebra - one of the Spanish Virgin Islands at the east end of Puerto Rico.  An overnight there on the 28th, to the east end of Puerto Rico on the 29th and then on to San Juan on the 30th.  Bri is flying home from Puerto Rico on the 31st. 

We left St. Thomas at around 10am this morning after a provisioning run.  We sailed on a close reach to the SE for about 15 miles and then tacked back to toward St. John.  Around 1pm, the wind picked up to around 20 and we reefed the main.  Around 1:30, it picked up another 5 knots and we furlled the jib (never did set the mizzen).  With only a reefed main and staysail, we were headed into the East end of St. Thomas and with rain setting in, we decided to pull into and drop anchor (mooring ball) at the east end behind Great St. James Island.  That was the right move since it rained on the way in and during our first hour at anchor.