On the morning we the left, the wind had clocked all the way around from the S to the NNE just as predicted and was about 10-15 knots. So we all decided to go. The cut was no problem at all with that wind direction and current so we were off for a full day of sailing.

As soon as we got to water 60 ft. deep I put out my fishing lines. Unfortunately, after about a half hour I had noticed lot of Sargasso grass in the water and went to clear my lines. The lures were loaded and that was it for fishing for that day, bummer.

The wind picked up and it turned out to be a wonderful sail. About 15-20 knots true wind and a beam to slightly broad reach. Later in the afternoon the seas really started to build but for the most part it was a great sailing day. The icing on the cake was that Early Out was one of the fasted boats out there. We had up our full canvas where most other boats either reefed their sails or went without one or more of theirs. We passed everyone except a large catamaran.

It was nice to be the first boat of the group to arrive at Royal Island. When we pulled into the harbor there were only two other boats there, so we had our pick of where to anchor. We found a nice spot on the East end of the harbor and most of the other boats went to the West side.