Great Harbour Marina. The Berries Bahamas. 2/12/17
There was a mass exit today of boats. About 1/2 the boats left. Sure was quiet, like a ghost town. We only have 2 days to travel before we expect to sit out a couple of days of bad stuff and figured we might as well stay here and have access to water and electricity.
It was super calm, the water looked like a mirror. Not a bit of breeze. We used the AC most of the day.
We filled our jerry jugs with water and that was about all we had to do. We will get diesel as we leave in the morning. Last night the no see 'ems found me. The ones here are about 1/2 the size of the ones in FL and can get through even the smallest size screen. They hung around today too. Maybe it was the lack of a breeze that brought them out. We had not seen much in the way of annoying insects here. I hate being held hostage down below because of bugs. The screens for the canvas just do not fit tightly enough to keep any determined insect out so I go down in the hole. I told someone living on a sail boat is like living on a jungle gym in a cave and when you can not go up top that is especially true.
Late last night I knocked over a glass of coke. We had our charts out right beside the glass. The $75 Explorer chart of the Bahamas we found ruined at the start of the trip, that we replaced in Fort Lauderdale, got coked on. I grabbed it up and tried to rinse it off with water but the little spiral holes let the coke and water disperse throughout the 70 plus pages. We wiped of each page with a sponge and wiped it with a paper towel then put a piece of wax paper between the pages until we ran out. We used plastic wrap after we did not have waxed paper. This morning most of the pages were dry and nothing had stuck together. We got lucky, or I did. I might have been swimming with the fish if I had ruined the book. New rule--- No food or drink on the table when charts are on the table.
We do not expect to have internet access for several days so if you do not see a log that is why.
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