We are OFF! . . . for a long day’s sail from WestEnd, Grand Bahama Island to the anchorage at New Plymouth, Green Turtle Cay. We’ve decided to bypass Great Sale Cay since there is another front getting ready to roll in and we don’t want to get ‘stuck’ there as it’s a real chore to get Ruger ashore. Been there done that! Anyway we have roughly 114 miles to go! The day is beautiful and we leave our dock at 0700 hours, the first of 3 boats (Indian Summer, Skatt, and Solitaire!) to leave. We are greeted by a flying stingray as we left the channel markers which we took to be a sign of good luck. Around Memory Rock Solitaire1 took the lead with Skatt following and we pretty much maintained this procession until we anchored. The day was sunny with light winds and calm seas. We did fly the staysail about half the day, the jenny only got an hours’ worth of workout and the balance of our thrust was provided by our iron jenny called Yanmar! As lovely as the day was, the sunset was gorgeous and the night spectacular. So many many stars and so very dark the night sky. We anchored easily about 2330 hours and were enjoying a wee dram of scotch at midnight awaiting the arrival of Skatt. Donning our strobe lights for her shortly after midnight she too easily anchored and we all went to BED!
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