Chapter Ten
Interlude
As the yacht moved through the Caribbean, she stopped on some nights at prearranged locations, usually a small sheltered anchorage or harbor, if they needed supplies. Norquist carried out his global business from his private office suite on the bridge deck, aft of the comm station, where he was linked to the ship’s multiple satellite antennas. With the latest electronic gear, he could and did communicate with anywhere on the globe and the crew often joked that he was really communicating with life forms on some other planet.
Once Altuna was in the British Virgins, there were fine choices for nightly stopovers and in many cases, the yacht simply remained at anchor for a week or more while the family fished, dove, swam in the clear, nearly empty waters or occasional
