2017 Life Logs, Day 118: Overnight Passage from Eleuthera to the Abacos
Date: Friday, April 28, 2017
Weather: Sunny; ESE Winds 18, Turning E 20
Location: Northeast Providence Channel
So far, so good with this overnight passage to the Abacos. Most of the day we were sailing dead downwind as we sailed from east to west from Rock Sound on Eleuthera to the Fleeming Channel. We just got through the channel and are now headed northward in the Northeast Providence Channel. The first part of the day was a rolly downwind sail and now that we have turned we have 20 knots of wind on the beam. The seas are a choppy and once in a while we get a big wave that throws us a bit, but we are flying toward the Abacos. We will have an early dinner, so I can sleep from 7 pm to 10 pm while Sam is on first watch. Dawn is going to stay up with him until the sun goes down and then she will try to sleep as well. My watch is from 10 pm to 1 pm and then not again until 7 am in the morning. So other than a bit of a lumpy ride right now, all is well on Windbird.
Saturday Morning, 11 am: We made it! We are at anchor behind Great Guana Cay in the Abacos. It is much more upscale here than the Exumas or Eleuthera. It looks more like Florida than what I have seen of the Bahamas. We do not have internet on the boat, but we will go to Grabber’s bar onshore this afternoon and try to use their internet to send this log. Life is good.
