One of my favorite island drinks is rum, and the Caribbean is a rum lovers paradise.  On my first trip to the BVIs in 1994, I was introduced to Painkillers.  The best painkiller I have found in the BVIs is at the Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda.  Anchor your boat close to east end of the resort, near the pool, and go ashore for lunch.  Be sure to order the lobster salad and a PAINKILLER.

Rum and the sea are inseparable, and no rum is more akin to the sea and the seaman than is British Navy PUSSER'S RUM. For over 300 years, sailors of Britain's Royal Navy were issued a daily ration of rum by the Purser (corrupted to Pusser by the Jack Tars). From 1655 to 1970, Pusser's Rum was one of the few daily comforts afforded those early seamen of Britain's Royal Navy as they fought across the globe to keep the Empire intact and its sealanes open.

British Navy PUSSER'S RUM is the same superb blend of five West Indian rums as served on board Their Majesties' ships for three centuries. Today it is still blended in accordance with the Admiralty's exacting specifications of 1810. British Navy PUSSER'S RUM is said to be like a  fine cognac, with a full flavor and smoothness which are unsurpassed.

Pusser's Painkiller was concocted at a little place called the Soggy Dollar Bar on the beach at deserted White Bay on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. The Soggy Dollar is so-called because it can't be reached by road and there is no dock. Sailors reach the four-stool bar by swimming in. Because their money usually gets wet during the trip the bar has a clothes line where you can hang dollar bills until they dry out in the gentle Trade Winds. While you wait for your money to dry out, the barmaid will make you the infamous Pusser's Pain Killer, a delicious delight you won't soon forget.