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We plan to leave in the morning for Great Harbor Cay in the Bahamas. If you don’t see us on Facebook or Words with Friends you will know why. Internet access will be severely limited and sporadic. We will try to get out emails occasionally . To help us out, please do not email pictures until we get back in the USA. If answering an email please delete the original post to reduce data usage. Lynda will try to keep our log updated when she can get internet access. Lee VoyagesOfSeaTurtle.blogspot.com
Day 52. Tuesday. 2/7/17. Anchored outside No Name Harbor, FL.
Today we checked everything we could think of, from course plotting to filters to weather reports. We think we are ready to go. The bad weather that was going to arrive Friday has creeped up to Thurs evening but we expect to be tucked away in a safe spot in Great Harbor Cay by then. Not sure what time we will get there Thurs but expect it to be by early afternoon. We will leave a couple of hours before dawn Wed. morning and go just north of Bimini (about 40 miles) then over to Great Harbor Cay (about another 75 miles). It will take us 30 hours which means sailing through the night. It should be a full moon and if the sea state is friendly it should be a pleasant night sail. We have night sailed before but always with another boat along too. We are not buddying up with any other boats this time so hope all goes well. We should have gotten an EPIRB, but did not think of it until today. For you non sailors it is an emergency beacon signal that makes you easy to locate if you are in trouble. Do not know when I can post blogs again so don't think we sank just because you do not hear anything for a few days.
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