Anchored outside No Name Harbor, just S. of Miami
Day 51. Monday
We left Barnes Sound about 8 this morning. Last night was calm and bugless. We traveled until 3:30 when we reached our jumping off place to go to the Bahamas. We were able to sail most of the day. We had winds 8-15kts about 30degrees off our starboard side. We made 5.9 a lot of the time which we thought was pretty good. We will do research and double check everything tomorrow and if the sea conditions and winds still look good we will cross starting Wednesday morning.
We will have about 30hours worth of sailing to do, so will sail Wed, Wed night and til mid day Thurs before we reach Great Harbor Cay. We will stay at the marina there til we clear customs and maybe Fri and Sat if the conditions are as rough as the forecast now indicates. Then we will go to the other side of the island which has 2 beautiful beaches with super fine sand and anchor. Dinghy in and enjoy the clear water and nice clean sand.
We have read some reviews and logs of other cruisers who think it is definitely worth several days stay. We shall see.
Funny, that is our exact plan (possibly leaving from Ft Lauderdale) with a good weather window. Unfortunately we're not quite ready to make this one...I'm in Atlanta & my brother flies into Miami Saturday. But we'll be hot on your heels, weather permitting.
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