4/6 complete in Nassau with weather woes
We got up early and went to work. Chris scrubbed the outside of the boat to an inch of its life and I did the same on the inside. Our Halley is gleaming now. (Well, sort of, there’s lots more detailing before she’s truly gleaming, so comparatively gleaming might be a better way of putting it.)
Justus and Eva arrived in the afternoon and we are now only 2 short of our full family unit. Great to have them here and lots of fun to see their reactions to the boat and to show them around. Lucy was happy to see them as well, though with a somewhat quizzical expression on her face; human children also forced onto the boat?
We started out with a minor adventure by taking the dinghy across the Nassau harbor channel to Atlantis, the gigantic ocean-themed Vegas-style resort on Paradise Island. We landed in the dinghy dock of the Atlantis marina and ogled the many-many-million dollar yachts, then marveled at the over-the-top displays of artfully blown glass and the gigantic salt-water aquarium that surrounds the property. It is truly a nutty place. And expensive, as in Bahamas expensive + theme-park expensive… we had a simple pizza dinner and clocked in over $100.
Back home and obsessing over the weather reports. I mentioned the cardinal rule #1 of cruising in a prior post; never committing to being in a certain place at a certain time. Well, we’ve done it twice already in our short cruising career. Our next deadline is Dec 20 when we are scheduled to pick up Sixten and Axel in Georgetown in the southern Exumas, ca 100 nm from where we are now. Seemed like a decent enough idea back in November when looking at charts spread out over the kitchen table...
Now we have strong winds from the east for the next several days. That’s no weather for crossing the very shallow (6-12 feet weaponized with sand banks and coral heads) Yellow Bank to the Exumas. We’ll keep a close eye on the weather reports, but it’s looking more and more likely that Sixten and Axel will have to re-route to Nassau. Then we can make the Yellow Banks crossing to the Exumas together early next week in calm, favorable winds. We are on island time now; it’s all good.
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