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| Dan and Dory were back aboard just as the sun rose this morning, so we were ready to roll by 7:15. |
All weather reports remained favorable as we readied to cross the DEEP on our way north, back to the Abacos. We were the first to leave Royal Harbor, but were followed quickly by several other sailboats. We followed our track which was still visible on the chart plotter and made it through the Egg Island cut without any trouble. Shortly after we passed the sand bank we had visited on our trip Tuesday, the depth sounder blanked out as we headed immediately into depths in the thousands!
With the dinghy up in the davits, Dan was able to get a picture of his ingenious repair with the jury rigged part and some pieces of wire. I also forgot to report that all was not lost while he and Michael we diving beneath the boat, because Dan replaced the propeller zinc while he was down there. Last week when I was editing the pictures he had taken of our bottom, I zoomed in on the prop and noticed screws sticking out. That indicated we were zinc-less! They are a sacrificial piece of zinc that needs to be replaced regularly (but obviously more often in these salty warm waters.)
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| A coupling nut that was the wrong thread size was cut to the right length and then held together by SS wires twisted together. |
We were surprised just how much traffic we encountered as we crossed the North East Providence Channel. Our chart plotter has an overlay of AIS (automatic identification system) and it now differentiates the type of boat you see on your screen. The two sailboat shapes are sailboats close on our tail(we're the black shape) and the big boxy ones are tankers and cargo ships. We noticed that a few had to change course slightly to avoid collisions with each other! You can also see some of the depths we encountered.
The trip went well and in spite of both Dan and myself sitting with cameras ready we still can't show you a flying fish. I deleted close to fifty shots with possible white blobs and I was reminded of Dan's many attempts years ago to get an eagle shot. The kids were used to hearing, "See that small white dot? Really, it's an eagle." Oh well.....
We came through the Little Harbor Cut and entered the South Sea of Abaco around 3:30, There were large rollers surging in with us and it made it a wild surfing ride. We were glad to get in the lee of the islands and drop the hook.
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| Anchored at Lynyard Cay. |
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| This doesn't really do justice to the surge coming in through the cut. |
~~~_/)~~~M&D
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