Dinner on “Forever Young” last night was quite the event. The food and company were equally excellent. The first course was lightly seared mahi sushi, lightly crusted and served with soy sauce and fresh ginger. The finish was a light citrus flavor combined with the olive oil the morsels were seared with. Accompanying the sushi was a cheese plate, and a combination platter with smoked oyster – greek olives – water chestnuts – and assorted other bits of flavor.
The main course was baked Mahi Mahi served with several sides brought by the guests. One outstanding side was a rice dish prepared with fresh ginger. Dessert was pecan pie alamode or Apple crisp cake with ice cream.
The guests seemed to all be sail boat people and most owned catamarans. One couple was on a Catana 57 cat named “Wasabi” they may not count as a just a catamaran couple because they also have a Oytser 56 back home. An Oyster is a very high end monohull. Two couples were on Voyage 440 cats travelling together since the south pacific, they are circumnavigators. We talked about where they liked it the best. Number one was Fiji, two was the Bahamas, and I didn’t recognize the name of the third place. Jumanji and SYL made 5 cats in all. Another couple was on a trawler and I think two couples were monohull sailors.
Lauire and Richard Young are excellent hosts. Pirate Beach is a gathering place with a revolving door of friends, some know each other, most don’t. Last night we met quite a few more “Pirates” from this particular time stamp. Richard and Laurie are probably the most common residents. Normally they sit on anchor just off Pirate Beach until they need more generator diesel (they carry 2,000 gallons). Last night I heard the statement “Laurie is the mayor of Pirate Beach” her petite little frame can often be seen reading in the shade, on Pirate Beach.
Well… if the front came through last night there wasn’t much of an “event” associated with it. It’s remarkably the same as yesterday, with a little more breeze. Hopefully we won’t see the big winds they forecast and can move about the Staniel area without impediment.
Mega Yacht City: This anchorage has always seen its share of large boats but I think this year takes the cake. I can see 10 from where I sit. How do you classify “mega” when it comes to yacht size? I guess I use the 100’ mark as my qualifier. So does that make the 78’er we were on last night is only a yacht… not a mega yacht? Surely I’ve learned by now… everything is relative.
Lunch time and Jono is making his chili dogs, this time I have onions.. Lauire gave me two yellow onions the other day. I just hadn’t thought to buy any when we were shopping. We just got back from a dinghy tour of my secret sea glass beach, but our goal this year was ambergris. Jono picked up a little glass and I did too, but mainly we picked up chunks of everything but ambergris. We have pretty well figured out how to distinguish what a tar ball looks like, so we don’t pick up many of them anymore but it seems right to check every object that looks suspicious.
SYL!!
Mike is working on his inflatable kayak, it got hot and blew a seam the other day. We will probably do thunderball tomorrow at low tide. Mike told me that Ted and Mili on Morning Glory are only about 60 miles away. They are supposed to be at Shroud Cay waiting out the blow like we are here. Teds goal is to make it down to Georgetown for Family Island Regatta (that’s about 10 days away) so we will probably head down with him and pick up whatever we missed on the way back North. We skipped Bell Island and the undersea aquarium, that’s a must see attraction. It will be better done when the water warms up a little.
Great day today, the Pirate Beach gang gathered at 4 with snacks at the beach. We anchored SYL up on the beach and walked back to and from the boat at our leisure. It was good to get together again after the great meal and conversation last night on Forever Young. We had a hot game of bean bag toss and sat around talking about boating and places we had all been. Jono and I made a new Sea Yawl Later sign to hang at Pirate Beach.
Tomorrow will be a snorkel day at thunderball cave. That’s all we have planned so far. I expect Ted and Mili might come up and surprise us tomorrow on Morning Glory.
SYL