02/20/2009 I left Staniel Cay this morning after the weather net. I was expecting some light winds, but not no wind at all. I took a leisure 57 mile motor trip down Exuma Sound. This is one of those days I am really happy I have a good auto-pilot on the boat. About an hour out of George Town I noticed that the waves had started to build and I had some wind. I was able to pop the spinnaker and sail into the west end cut into Exuma Harbor. I was expecting to do a little show off by carrying the spinnaker down past the anchored fleets, but one too jibes and I wrapped the spinnaker into a figure eight and then around the forestay. Luckily the wind was light enough and I had enough room within the cut to get the spinnaker down without incident.
I was able to sail the boat into the area I anchored and dropped the anchor under sail. I needed a little hot-dogging. I have been working on the systems on the boat and they are coming second nature.
The reason for getting down here was to meet up with Christian from Camelot. I met him in Little farmers Cay a couple of weeks ago. We discussed traveling together onto Puerto Rico together as solo sailors. I was happy to see him anchored in the same area as me and we took off for town for the night.
We were all in a celebration mood. I made it to George Town and found Christian. Christian along with a new friend of his were out fishing today and caught a 60 pound Wahoo. It was the talk of the area as there hasn’t been much fishing going on. It was a fun crowd at the local watering hole Peace and Plenty.
02/21/2009 After a good night of celebrating I headed over to Volleyball beach. While there I found that there is a regulation volleyball game also, besides the cruiser volleyball. I am hooked. I was able to get in three hours of 4 v 4 and had a blast.
02/22/2009 Today I made it into a local church in George Town for service. It was at St Andrew’s Parish, an Angelican/Episcopol. I wasn’t sure of what to expect, but it was the longest service I believe I have been since I was a child when a missionary attended my local church. The minister had over an hour and a half long sermon. The full service lasted for two and a half hours. The sermon was one of the best I ever heard as she put so much into it. She broke the Word apart and deep and she is a good speaker. It turns out that that is not normal as most people were saying they were good for three weeks now.
We had light nice winds and good weather down here today so I took the boat out for a sail and made it out the east end of the harbor. I expect that will be the way I leave and wanted to get a look at the cut for future reference.
02/23/2009 This evening I went out to the fish fry area to Porgies. Tonight the local entertainment is what they call Rake and Scrape. It is a collection of musicians playing whatever instrument they can put together. There is an electric guitarist and bassist, a guy beating on a drum, another playing a saw and another playing a bass wash tub. The sound is pretty good and everyone is having a great time.
Also I was watching a few men shouting and carrying on around
a TV. It was a few local Bahamian sailors watching older videos of their sailboat racing. I felt like was at home with other racing. The BS was as deep a
s any other club I could be sitting in and the talk about how they would take one another out and how the boat would make mistakes an
d they would take advantage of it. This last picture is of Christain and Sue. Christian is the guy I expect to sail out of Exumas together with and Sue is a local that has been int he islands for over 40 years. She was everywhere.
02/25/2009 I am still getting the boat ready for the next passage. I also look forward to 2:30. That is when the regulation beach volleyball starts. The crowds have been building each day and we are able to get two courts playing. It is a good work-out. I am also learning new techniques of volleyball as the rules I played with mostly were indoor 6 v 6. I have been taking more showers in the last week because of the work-outs.
02/27/2009 Not much going on here except non-stop winds out of the east. A weather system has set in and keeping the winds in this direction. I am looking for anything that has west in it to move on. I was not expecting to have to wait this long.
I have been using this time to ready the boat and me. I met John and the boat Buddy. It is a 44 foot trimaran with beautiful lines. I was able to spend an afternoon picking his brain about traveling to Puerto Rico. He has been sailing down here for many years and has quite a bit of information. My plans now are to sail to the west end of Puerto Rico and then around the southern coast. With that passage if things get rough the first couple of days, I can duck into Turks and Caicos or even Dominican Republic. It gives me many options and then I get to see a beautiful coast of Puerto Rico.
At this time it appears we will be leaving either Sunday or Monday. All dependent on the weather.
I was able to sail the boat into the area I anchored and dropped the anchor under sail. I needed a little hot-dogging. I have been working on the systems on the boat and they are coming second nature.
The reason for getting down here was to meet up with Christian from Camelot. I met him in Little farmers Cay a couple of weeks ago. We discussed traveling together onto Puerto Rico together as solo sailors. I was happy to see him anchored in the same area as me and we took off for town for the night.
We were all in a celebration mood. I made it to George Town and found Christian. Christian along with a new friend of his were out fishing today and caught a 60 pound Wahoo. It was the talk of the area as there hasn’t been much fishing going on. It was a fun crowd at the local watering hole Peace and Plenty.
02/21/2009 After a good night of celebrating I headed over to Volleyball beach. While there I found that there is a regulation volleyball game also, besides the cruiser volleyball. I am hooked. I was able to get in three hours of 4 v 4 and had a blast.
02/22/2009 Today I made it into a local church in George Town for service. It was at St Andrew’s Parish, an Angelican/Episcopol. I wasn’t sure of what to expect, but it was the longest service I believe I have been since I was a child when a missionary attended my local church. The minister had over an hour and a half long sermon. The full service lasted for two and a half hours. The sermon was one of the best I ever heard as she put so much into it. She broke the Word apart and deep and she is a good speaker. It turns out that that is not normal as most people were saying they were good for three weeks now.
We had light nice winds and good weather down here today so I took the boat out for a sail and made it out the east end of the harbor. I expect that will be the way I leave and wanted to get a look at the cut for future reference.
02/23/2009 This evening I went out to the fish fry area to Porgies. Tonight the local entertainment is what they call Rake and Scrape. It is a collection of musicians playing whatever instrument they can put together. There is an electric guitarist and bassist, a guy beating on a drum, another playing a saw and another playing a bass wash tub. The sound is pretty good and everyone is having a great time.Also I was watching a few men shouting and carrying on around
a TV. It was a few local Bahamian sailors watching older videos of their sailboat racing. I felt like was at home with other racing. The BS was as deep a
s any other club I could be sitting in and the talk about how they would take one another out and how the boat would make mistakes an
d they would take advantage of it. This last picture is of Christain and Sue. Christian is the guy I expect to sail out of Exumas together with and Sue is a local that has been int he islands for over 40 years. She was everywhere.02/25/2009 I am still getting the boat ready for the next passage. I also look forward to 2:30. That is when the regulation beach volleyball starts. The crowds have been building each day and we are able to get two courts playing. It is a good work-out. I am also learning new techniques of volleyball as the rules I played with mostly were indoor 6 v 6. I have been taking more showers in the last week because of the work-outs.
02/27/2009 Not much going on here except non-stop winds out of the east. A weather system has set in and keeping the winds in this direction. I am looking for anything that has west in it to move on. I was not expecting to have to wait this long.
I have been using this time to ready the boat and me. I met John and the boat Buddy. It is a 44 foot trimaran with beautiful lines. I was able to spend an afternoon picking his brain about traveling to Puerto Rico. He has been sailing down here for many years and has quite a bit of information. My plans now are to sail to the west end of Puerto Rico and then around the southern coast. With that passage if things get rough the first couple of days, I can duck into Turks and Caicos or even Dominican Republic. It gives me many options and then I get to see a beautiful coast of Puerto Rico.
At this time it appears we will be leaving either Sunday or Monday. All dependent on the weather.
1 comment:
Hi Bill,
Bruce sent us your blog, you certianly have the name correct, what an adventure!! I have been reading for several hours and still not close to reading all of the reports. Thanks for sharing with us, we will continue to check in now and then. Where to after the VI?
Stan & Sally
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