so we made it out of eluthra sound (i may have used a few other names for it on previous posts) with no trouble. its a reasonably deep but not very wide pass and we went out just an hour after low tide and there was already a 3 kt current. with us fortunatly, we had the headsail up for more “power” in case we needed it but where doing 8 kts with the engins back. shortly after we...
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So we made it into Exuma sound with no problem last nigth, a bit freeky coming into a new country at night for the first time. Don’s Garmin and my Navionics charts where not exactly in agreement but we used them both. We droped anchor in about 10 ft of water of a pretty deserted piece of land at about midnight. It was officially an anchorage but we could not see any other boats. We had...
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so after suffering along like a pin ball in a pin ball machine don and were both clearly the not having fun camp not looking forward to the next 36 hours at all. more water was coming in the boat in more places so i finally i said to don “we could bail out and go to another island”, yes, he said that sounds good, how far, “50nm straight down wind” i replied. this would...
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So in the afternoon things cleared up and we where motoring sailing more north in anticipation of the winds clocking around to the north east. everything was going great don decided we where officially in the bahamas and declared an early happy hour. we got a not great sunset but enjoyed the happy hour. around sunset i started to make dinner and all hell broke loose. i had the mac and cheese...
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Last night was another gorgeous evening. Don made us his mac and cheese delux dinner (with onion, tomato, green beens). We had half of it for dinner and the other half on watch. It was so relaxing I sat in the stern seats looking up at the new moon with the ble speakers in my lap watching James bond movies on the laptop in the cockpit table. The only thing missing was the wind, there was...
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So today after lunch we finally got some wind off the beam instead of straight behind us. I looked at the wind and the sails and said “don why dont we try the main”, “no problem” says don, “ill winch it up” says roger (famous last words) so into the wind we head and i start winching, about half way up i am ready to pass out, given i am 20 or 30 years younger...
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