VHF yea!

Saturday
March 28, 2015
Emerald Rocks
Warderwick Wells Cay
Emumas, Bahamas



As promised last night & this morning was a blow. Winds were up over 35 kts for several hours in the night. Everyone was bobbing up and down, lights on boats indicating other people were awake too. Lee sat in the cockpit while it rained and blew and watched to see if we were going to stay on the mooring ball. It slowed down around 8 am. But got around 20 kts again in the afternoon.

Mark & Judy came over in the morning and let us know they were going to dinghy to the park office. Judy found a problem with her shirt & needed to exchange it. Mine was little too big so I send it back by Judy to exchange for a smaller size. When Mark came back with the shirt he also brought a VHF radio. He had an extra one on board. It seemed to work fine so we have it wired in and are in the communication business again. I just hope it continues to work. Lee tried the helm mike and that seemed to cause the main vhf to go dead. While he was checking connections to see if that was the problem it magically came back on again. We do not know if the pedestal mike caused the problem or why it started working again so to be on the safe side we are not using the helm mike. Still no internet or cell signal.

It has been overcast all day. So rare for it not to be sunny. Listening to the weather guru it sounds like we might make a run north on Monday. Also looks like we will be pulling some over nighters to catch weather windows. Time will tell. We will eventually get back to the states.