Doubled D Charters

29/03/2025

Back off charter today posted a weather report about the what to expect with the waves , don’t see anything about a swell, coming in , but here it is , just enough to make it rough even on the Lee shores and beaches of Virgin Gorda , usually just a strong east wind doesn’t do this , so sorry to lead everyone astray
Dave

29/03/2025

Good morning all , hope enjoyed the wonderful weather we have been having the last couple of weeks the weather is still going to stay very nice with the odd sprinkle of rain once in awhile but a strong high pressure is going to stay with us awhile .
Winds picked up last night and will remain well into next week , should get some relief by next Friday or so, the winds are going to make the water pretty choppy out there on the boats and will make north and east shores very rough , but Lee shores should fairly calm , no real swell other than wind generated from the east .
Hope you have a great week
Dave

19/03/2025

Good morning all
Havnt written much because the weather has been so wonderful for quite some time , and will continue until the begining of next week , when the wind is going to pick up into the 16 to 19 knot range , and maybe a little more moisture going into the weekend.
The main feature you can see at the bottom of the wind chart is the ground sea it’s going to start building through today and into the night with potentially 6-9 foot waves and they say potentially higher than that, max wave there calling for is 12 feet but that from noaa in PR so can expect 6-9 feet here Thursday to Friday , and will tapper off Saturday night into Sunday..
Outside of the swell on shore , the water should be pretty calm because there will be almost no wind going into the weekend, so the south side of Tortola should be relatively calm, but north side of Tortola will be extremely rough. Rip currents and undertow will be prevalent near rough water please it will be very hazardous around the big waves
Have a great rest of the week
Dave

18/03/2025

Hi everyone . I have been working on a problem that came up last week, someone hijacked my domain name for my web page , and are holding it for ransom, this has been a learning experience for sure, my web page is down, and everything that was hosting it are not now ie google for searches on the www. But also things like trip advisor and anything else that hosts my domain name , my web host has bought 2 more domain names for me and in 24-48hrs I can let you know what they are so you can again access my web page. Thay don’t what to me to give them out just incase these parasites (had to change due to swear word)try and take these also.
So bear with me for a couple of days until this gets sorted out and I will tel you what the new ones are.
I’m also actively trying to buy back my old domain name so in the end maybe nothing changes , except the internet gets more expensive, from the parasitical industry the whole internet has created .
On a happier note thenpicture above is actually a rainbow looking east that is reflecting the sun that is setting in the west , this was incredible to actually see a setting sun bow.
Thank you everyone

26/12/2024

Happy Boxing Day, and hope everyone had a great Christmas, looks like our great run of fairly calm and dry weather is going to continue well into new year, should be nice right up to the 5th of January, with some wind on the 3rd of January, but nothing excessive.
It looks like there will be a big shift on Monday the 6th and looks like we will get some very strong Christmas winds for 4-5day , so at least from the 6-11th I just can’t see any farther than that, and will post again , after the new year , with a better insight as to how the second week of January is going to unfold .
So enjoy this crazy great weather we have for the holidays and prepare for the weather to become more of the wintery windy stuff that is more normal for this time of the year.
Every one have a fantastical new year
Dave

22/12/2024

Good morning, and an early Merry Christmas
Hope everyone has had a fantastic year so far.
Weather looks pretty good for the rest of December that said today might be a little damp, there is allot of moisture not to far away , you can see it over and to the south of PR, it is edging east but hopefully most of stays over there today.
The first snap shot is a look at the wind all the way to the 31st dec. all pretty nice in the low teens, and other than today and a bit tomorrow fairly dry.
The second wind chart is from Jan 1 to Jan 5
The wind on Jan 1 stats to move into the mid teens , then on the 3 Jan the wind gets a little more aggressive and we shift back up to the high teens 19-21 knts.
So great weather until the 2nd of January then shifts to very seasonal strong trade winds the 3rd of Jan onwards, there probably will be some minor changes but the general outlook holds.
The radar secret shot is this morning at 5am ish
You can see all the rain around PR , that will probably give us some short rain showers today I hope, but it has the potential to roll over us and be more than a couple of rain showers, it will a bring the umbrella just incase .
Again enjoy the holidays
Dave

21/12/2024

18/12/2024

Good morning , hope everyone is enjoying the lead up to Xmas , to days weather was expected, the rain is lasting a bit longer , but should clear up partially a bit later than I thought. The wind is going to continue to build into tonight and tomorrow morning, the moisture values have increased a little more then where predicted 3-4days ago , so we will have a couple of days where the rain will be off and on , hopefully more off than on.
Friday winds start to knock off in the morning and so does the moisture content .
The winds look to be pretty calm late Friday on to next but the moisture content is going to linger over next week but looks very light and we should only have the odd passing shower.
I will write again next week about the first week of January, and hope we have the same favourable weather we have been experiencing so far over the holidays , except for today so far.
The radar picture looks like most of the moisture has passed us by this morning , and we are just waiting for the tail end of this system to leave us , looks dry in Anegada .
Now much swell is forecasted for the next week or so , about the same as we have had this last week or so.
Enjoy the upcoming weekend
Dave

15/12/2024

Good morning
Hope all are having a great weekend.
Looks like the weather is going to be pretty nice until the new year all in all
Bit of wind this Wednesday, and some moisture is going to move in to the area , looks like some rain early in the morning, then it tapers off and should be done by 9 am. The next 7-8 days looks fairly calm until Xmas , with the wind popping back up to seasonal strength of 16-17 knots. Then settles right back down until new years.
Doesn’t look like any major swell events at least until the new year. So all and all very pleasant weather till the end of December .
Be another week before I can catch a glimpse of what the first week of January will look like.
Have a great Holliday season
Dave

25/11/2024

Good morning all
Just a quick note, doesn’t look like we are getting any where near the swell expected now or in the future , seems to have slackened way down, there still will be a persistent 1 meter swell for the next little while , but all and all looks like great weather for the next week and half at least.
All this wind will have knocked off by Wednesday .
Enjoy Dave

24/11/2024

Good morning. All
Looks like we are going to get a good rain this morning , winds picking up to seasonal values today in the 14-17 range , winds will stay up for a couple of days increasing tomorrow some more to about 20 mph.
The ground sea is going to get pretty strong all week will be in the 2 meter range , and looks like we are going to have the ground sea stick around for for a while but will calm down a bit at the end of the week.
Our nice calm weather will be disrupted a bit will return later in the week.
Dave

17/11/2024

Good morning 😃
Horray for a change we were not the bulls eye for the rain that hit every where else last night , for what ever reason it just didn’t land on top of us , PR got hammered , the islands off Purto Rico also, 6-8 inches , and St croix, also plenty of rain , st Marteen and Anguilla got there fair share also.
So we are happy we got a break.
The lightning last was impressive lots to the south of us.
There is still pockets of rain all around us , and they are still calling for more today , so we may get some showers off and on today , but at the moment the moon is out , and the rain is off shore, hope it stays that way.

16/11/2024

Good evening to all
There is a fair amount of rain moving our way from the west, the they have flood warnings almost all they way across PR , it looks like the BVI are going to get allot of this rain tonight .
I don’t know for sure but maybe a substantial amount.
I put the last NWS weather report , tomorrow looks wet also .
Dave

12/11/2024

Good morning
Looks like we have a bit more trailing moisture coming through this morning, should pass with maybe a couple of showers as it goes by depending on where you are.
Winds have picked up a bit today , is good because it will blow this moisture out faster, still going to be on the light side , and will get even lighter by tomorrow.
The peek of this ground sea that came in last night is peeking also this morning but will trail off for a couple of days , rough water for North and East shores that are exposed .
Lastly that was a building low that passed us by the other morning , and you can see it is still building as it aproaches the western Caribbean, and may develops a little more , not sure if it will get a name before it reaches the Central America , but it shows that the water is still warm enough to form low pressure circulation,
We may get a few more of these tropical waves before the end of the year .
Have a great day all

08/11/2024

Good morning
Another nice begining of the day but it is suppose to get wet again this afternoon, and tomorrow afternoon, how wet will depend on how much of the trailing moisture, from the low we get, and how much the south wind is going to drag up from South America, wind guru is showing a good bit of showers but as the low moves farther we may not get as much as forecasted, but that’s just a guess of my part,
Winds are not to bad but if we get a couple of thunder storms this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon, it will be gusty around though systems .
A majority of the moisture is sitting south of PR and that may be the ones that get a good portion of the rain that is supposed to come.
Have a great weekend
Dave

07/11/2024

Good morning all.
Good bunch of rain early last night, cleared out some, for the moment , the low will be passing over us at noon , is why the winds are calmer for the moment , we will be in that light air region until the winds shift and come from the south east latter this afternoon, winds are going to be lighter than forecasted a couple of days ago, 10-15 knots and look to stay that way for the next week or so , will eventually this weekend become more easterly.
There is a big system to the east of St Marteen that is trying to get itself together , so there is suppose to be a bunch more rain moving in Sunday.
So still lots of moisture in the air, but should be at least some sunny periods with some showers periodically, today , then it’s a crap shoot as to how much or how little rain we get fri,sat, with it looks most wet on Sunday , SE winds tend to bring up the moisture from South America, and that ridge that has been hovering over us for 2-3 weeks now is still there keeping the aggressive weather in our region. All cisterns should be full to the brim by now.
Have a great weekend to come
Dave

05/11/2024

Good afternoon all
Looks like we are going to have another low pressure system slide by tomorrow and the next day , per winds will be in the 22knt range , may be higher in thunderstorms, rain is going to pick up maybe substantially tomorrow and Thursday , with winds and rain seas will be a little rough for a couple of days.
We are going to get NE winds as the low approaches, and south east winds when it passes probably early Thursday morning it will transition for NE to SE .
Tropical storm Rafael formed yesterday, will probably be a hurricane as it it’s west Cuba , this was the low that passed us by and gave us all the rain last weekend.
The water in the ocean are still really warm so the low for tomorrow might be a bit stronger than predicted
Dave

03/11/2024

Good morning all
A bit cloudy this morning cause we have a southerly wind flow and it’s drawing moisture from the low in the south Caribbean. When the winds shift more easterly this afternoon it should move the clouds out and let the sunshine a little more.
Weather for the first part of the week should be very nice, light winds easterly flow, maybe the odd morning and evening shower , the atmosphere is still moist.
Wednesday, Thursday the winds pick up substantially into the 17-19knt range .
The ridge to the north of us is stilll there about 150 miles north of us with lots of east wind up there, and that will continue to give a bit of a ground sea off and on through the next week or so.
Looks like Patty has been given to the storm that’s heading into Spain, like they need anymore, but it’s north west corner luckily not much population on its current track, but might give south of France some sporty weather.
The south Caribbean low is starting to move Northwest and our little is moving to the east and the two are to meet up just north of Cuba and could form a little something in the next week or so, in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, forecasting has shifted track lines closer to Florida , so far it’s forecasted to not make any land falls , but it’s way to early to say for sure.
Also there is another low that is suppose to develop in that ridge just North of us , and it may have a little spin to it as it passes us by at the moment to the North of us later next Friday ish .
That’s it for now .
Dave