One of the beaches in Hawksbill Cay
Our anchorage
Check out this sailboat! He is so tall he has to have specific lights on
at night so he can be seen by planes, etc....
Our sunset!
Hawksbill Cay originally called Shroud Cay,
is one of the most beautiful cays in the park, if not the entire Exumas. Uninhabited, it has several beaches on both
the banks and Exuma Sound sides.
We
decided to leave and was headed for Warderick Wells Cay but we didn’t quite
make it. When we first left it was
really nice. We ran with our jib only,
at 6.5 knots, with no engines for about 30 minutes and then we made the
dastardly turn left!...then everything went to heck! The water was a churning! So we decided to go
to Hawks Bill Cay. It was only a 6 mile
run so it didn’t take us too long to get there. In fact, we dropped anchor at
11:40 in the morning!
With
the water being as rough as it was we decided to just stay on the boat. There was a nice coral head not too far from
where we were anchored but the current was pretty strong and I just didn’t feel
like dealing with it. So I took a nap
instead J
!!
Bob
and I worked on our rain catcher today.
He came up with a great idea. I
purchased the tarp to catch the rain a year or so ago, so all I have to do is
fit it and put some grommets in it. Bob
put together a bilge pump (brand new) with a hose attached to it to go into the
water tank. Then we are going to put a 15 lb weight in the middle of the rain
catcher to hold it down so it won’t blow all over the place during the rain
storm. He then attached the bilge pump wiring
to the seawater hose for power, now all we have to do is turn it off and on
from inside the boat and not have to go out in the rain. He’s a genius! He says this is what he does
when he gets up in the middle of the night, “think about stuff like this….”
Then
we did some mock scenarios, such as, “man overboard” and how we would handle
such things. It’s just like a training
class, doesn’t hurt to practice it. In
fact, I think we are actually going to do it in the water just to see if what
we think is the right answer. It’s
always better when you actually do it.
Of course, it will be a nice calm day when we do it, but at least we
know what to expect.
He’s
also decided I need some more hands on training with planning a route and
actually getting us there. So he is
going to show me how to put way points in, look at the chart and compare it to
the Chart Plotter, and then I will be captain for a day…the day happens to be
from Staniel Cay to Georgetown! I’m
ready!
Tomorrow
we are hoping to move on to Warderick Wells Cay. We will see.
I need phone and internet service bad!
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