So last night we gave up hope for crossing the weather just did not look as comfortable as we would have hoped for being Christian is a handfully when he can not run around so we spend all night trying to figure out where to spend christmas. We woke up early and pulled anchor we got out of the channel and had every intention of heading to farther into the keys. I think we got 30 minuted out of the channel we looked at each other and said "THIS IS IT" so we made our phone calls and off we were for our first crossing together and Christian's first crossing EVER. We pointed towards Bimini and off we were. It was beautiful rolling 4 footers and Christian loves to sleep in those, even better for mom. He sat topside and was very pleasent for most of the day we made about 15 miles out and we were joined by a power boat named "Caroline" it was her first crossing and they were taking it nice and easy. Off in our distance were two more sails and we were much more comfortable about being in the open waters. We made pretty good time to we got into the Bimini channel about 5:00 and were anchored by 6:00 we danced around the channel a little bit with three other sailboats all trying to get in. The channel was tricky you run up just like you are going to beach your boat everyone id comfortable with that concept, keep the green marker on your port and stay starboard in the channel we draft 6 ft and we had 5-7 under us at all times. "Caroline" was in fornt of us and got a little port after the turn of the green bouy and was only in 5.5 ft of water good thing they were a power boat only with 3 ft draft. Well I got my Christmas wish we are in the Bahamas we now have to plan out the rest we were suppose to be in the Abacos good thing we have a while.
Merry Christmas
CLC