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Yvette and Darcy depart St. Martin for the British Virgin Islands on their Sunreef 62 after a watermaker failure nearly cancels the passage.0:37 The watermaker's touchscreen controller fails completely in Simpson Bay; the unit is discontinued and a new OEM screen costs 5,000 euros.0:05 Titan Marine locates a used replacement screen on the island for $1,200 USD, installs it, and Darcy programs it in manual mode, dropping total dissolved solids from 490 to 250 parts per million — well under the WHO's 1,000 ppm threshold.1:54 They depart at sunset, sailing west-southwest roughly 100 nautical miles to Virgin Gorda in 10 knots of wind, making 4–5 knots wing-on-wing overnight.3:43 During the night watch, an unlit vessel with no AIS signal closes to 100 meters before tacking away; Darcy raises them on VHF and confirms they were aware of the situation.8:05 At Spanish Town, Virgin Gorda, Darcy dives the anchor to check holding in a bottom reported to have rocks that can foul anchors despite sandy appearance.16:01 Ashore, they install a Navionics SD card ($250) into the onboard chartplotter, having previously relied on the $50 phone app.21:38 A wood trim piece is re-adhered with 3M 4200.24:01 A discontinued watermaker touchscreen can be worked around by switching to manual mode if the replacement screen accepts reprogramming.3:13

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