So we finally pulled ourselves from Emerald Bay, with Moon as our buddy boat we headed north. Winds were finally from a favorable direction and we got some sail up, chugging along at a nice 6 kts. As the day progressed the wind clocked to dead behind and decreased so eventually it was back to motorsailing. We pushed on to Little Farmers while Moon cut in to Cave Cay.
Once tied up at Little Farmers we heard a Mayday call. As the afternoon progressed it turned out a Whitby 42 sank off Cave Cay in 1600' of water. The couple from London, Ontario got into their dingy with ditch bag and were picked up by a passing cruiser and brought into Little Farmers. Apparently they hit something hard which holed their vessel.
Next day John and Cheryl on Moon joined us and we spent a few days enjoying little farmers. We spent an afternoon at the airfield where there is a great little bar/restaurant which served up some outstanding ribs and burgers with cold kaliks. It was a great few days, beach combing, eating, playing eucre and exploring. Finally got a great lobster tail and with a steak we were saving had a wonderful surf and turf with baked potatoe night.
Reluctantly we decided to push on as we had to be in Stanial in time to meet Wendy's sister Sherry. We stopped at Black Point for a couple of days. Nice little grocery store allowed us to stock up a bit. Did some house keeping including laundry, real showers and Burry got a hair cut. Went to the pizza palour there and as usual our eyes were bigger than our stomachs and we ordered way to much. Moon and Seahawk split the leftovers and we eneded up eating pizza for lunch the next two days.
We discovered their was a volunteer tutor program for the school set up but a SSCA couple who had swallowed the hook at Black Point. This has put into thought we would spend a month there next winter and participate in this very worthwhile program.
Day before the frieght boat we pulled up the hook and made our way to Stanial Cay to be in position for the next great provisioning opportunity in preperation for our boat guests arrival.