Morning Glory showed up at Big Major last night just after dark, but I was already in bed so I didn’t know it!. Ted swung by on the dinghy but my lights were out so he didn’t knock. When I got up this morning I rode over to Mike’s boat, during the trip to Jumanji I took the drain plug out of the dink to drain the water so I was a bit preoccupied getting the plug put back in as I arrived at Jumanji. I sat down to talk and it took me about 5 minutes to realize Ted and Mili were parked right next door.
It was a great reunion. I hadn’t seen Mili in years, and of course Ted came to help me recover from the flood we had at home a month ago. Morning Glory is sure looking spiffy. She’s sporting a new hard top extension, new transom extensions, new removable front windows, a bow sprit and screacher.
We did Thunderball cave around noon, did our shopping at Staniel, Ted hauled off our trash, and I filled up with water and gas. Ted found another Seawind 1000 on the other side of Staniel! The boat name was De Javu III, he’s and his boat are from Australia. We went on board to talk, he gave us a mental picture of where all he had been on his 2000 model SW 1000. He continued to the north before dark, and the rest of the flotilla of 3 SW’s headed South about 5PM.
Our destination was Castle Beach just beyond Black Point. Ted took the shallow route that is much shorter so he arrived first, but SYL and Jumanji had a sparring match sailing side by side intensely competing to be the first to arrive. Mike trimmed sails while Laurie handled the helm. At first Mike only beat me in high wind legs, but he’s learning my trim secrets.. lol. We traded the lead several times sailing side by side literally 20 feet apart at times; it was intense but super fun. It was much too intense for a long haul, but this trip took less than 2 hours so we had a blast. I won’t tell you who won….. but it wasn’t me. Man… “beat by a dame!!”
We settled our anchors in the softest sand in the Bahamas, played mexican train and enjoyed each other’s company on Morning Glory until “cruiser midnight” 9:00.
SYL !! Rusty