Long Day, First Leg

Monday March 30, 2015
West Bay, New Providence Cay
Emumas, Bahamas

Long Day, First Leg

Today we left at first light to take the first leg of our trip home. We left Hawksbill Cay headed for New Providence. That is where Nassau is but we went to the other end of the island. It took 11 hrs. We had every kind of wind to almost no wind. We did a lot of sailing early in the day. I was getting 6.9 kts with a 13 kt breeze. My sails were happy. Our rail was in the water several times earlier in the day. That is the first time that we know of we have done that. We were really heeling.

Mark and Judy have picked up another traveler. A sail boater who is single handing his boat is going back to USA also and started tagging along after being at the same mooring field last night. Not sure how far he will travel with us but he is from the Washington DC area so might go a while.

Anchoring here was a pill. We had to try 2 or 3 times and so did Windbird. We have had great holding most places but not here. So far it has been very calm though.

Looks like we may make our closing date. We will have to wait and see but we are going to try hard. That is it for today.