The wind is howling but the sun is out so the weather is not ugly, just not perfect. I suspect there have been some gusts over 25 mph. Jono is getting increasingly better at beach combing. He’s looking for beaches that are hard to access and he is find better stuff. I think he has four pieces of “gris” so far. Nothing big but if they prove out to be the right stuff he may have several hundred dollar’s worth.
Another Seawind 1000 showed up today, he’s from California, boat name “Manyana”. I heard him talking to Morning Glory yesterday so we invited him to stop by on his trek North. Manyana is a very clean 2000 model. You don’t normally see even one other SW in the Bahamas, so besides the 4 of us that planned a rendezvous, we have seen two others that just happened by!
My morning project was to fix the windlass. Yesterday we sucked up a rope in the winch and sheared a pin between the motor and the gearbox. I wasn’t sure of the problem until I took the motor off. Sure enough it was fixable, I had a spare roll pin so we installed it and we are back in action.
Castle Beach developed a roll coming in from the South, it was rocking our boats more than necessary. With winds projected to swing more that way we all moved to Black Point anchorage. I went over to check out the possibility and stayed. Calling back to the other boats they all decided to come around the point. Manyana was first, then wings followed closely by Jumanji. It’s 4:45 so I expect we will go over to Manyana for an evening drink soon.
6:30 – I just got back from Manyana, Tom keeps his boat nice.. it was a good afternoon – everybody visiting together. Jono is ashore at Scorpio’s with Greg and Angie at Black Point for happy hour. I suspect I’m done for the evening here. I’ll kick back and watch the sunset, tonight it will go directly into the water so I’ll look for the “Green Flash”.
No green flash tonight, too many low clouds but the sunset was pretty. Tomorrow if the winds lay by lunch we will head down to Rudder Cut for the night.
SYL !! Rusty