It’s time to leave the US…
The weather and the stars have aligned to create a nice 3 day window of useable winds in the right direction and intensity. The sweet combination should provide a fun comfortable passage.
Our first day (early in the morning) we and several other boats staged here in Angelfish Creek will strike out for the 50 mile transit to the first Bahama islands. For the next 80 miles we cross the great Bahama banks. The banks provide a beautiful 10 to 20 ft deep sandy bottom to watch. You can count the starfish as you skim over the baby blue water… tomorrow!
The length of the gulfstream and banks crossing together usually mean a long 24 hour nonstop run, but as calm as it will be tomorrow night we will probably anchor in the middle of nowhere and sleep after 14 to 16 hours. When we wake up we will finish the run to the Southern Berry Islands 45 miles from Nassau.
Our Sunday-Monday run will probably end at Chubb Cay because there is a weather system coming down Tuesday night. IF winds are very light Tuesday morning we might make for Nassau… but prolly not.
Two of our fellow Seawind owners are going to meet us after the crossing. “Morning Glory” based in Stuart Florida is piloted by a lovely couple Ted and Mili. We met them years ago. They have the exact same boat as us. We look forward to being in their presence. Such a sweet couple.
Sv “Kailani” will make the rendezvous as well. Mike and Laurie from Aransas Pass, Texas just took delivery of their brand new Seawind 1160 (a much bigger brother to our boat) in Miami. They will join us on Kailani’s maiden voyage! I can’t wait to drool over all that brand new fiberglass.
Linda and I are sharing a celebratory bottle of wine as the sun gets low here in the upper keys. Sea Yawl Later is in fine form. Fully sorted out and ready for the journey. Ted is bringing us some last minute items and parts we needed after the shakedown run to Florida. His boat will be full of my stuff and his… until he catches up with us.
We look forward to posting some great pictures in the next few months. Stand by!
SYL!!