We had a heck of a time setting the anchor...Dudley dove it and tried to help dig it in deeper but the bottom was a little grassy and hard. He wasn't very happy about it...but we decided to stay put! It's just an overnight, after all.

What we did get done was the new alternator belt installed. Yep, we had one that Dudley thought was too small! I said, "let's just try it! He said he will never doubt my positive outlook and optimism again. It was a struggle but we are back in action.

Don't know what this TS Brett is about, but we discussed what we would do in the event of 'bad weather' in the middle of the night! I set the anchor alarm on the Ray Marine chartplotter which went off the first blow at 2am! Dudley didn't hear it...but when I set the portable Garmin, he suggested I go to bed with it and he would stay up a bit! We were both on edge to say the least.

Not much sleep, neither one of us, and a 30 hour leg ahead of us...just great!

We took off at 8a just like we planned...just not sure if we will go to Chub Cay or onto Bimini. It's a slog no matter how you look at it in the Tongue of the ocean to boot! So much for the shallow Bahama Bank and won't see it again until we reach the NW Channel Light which makes for a very nervous captain. Dudley says that it's an important way point, and it's usually not there!

This beauty, full on from Nassau clear across to us here at Rose Island and landing right into Altair's waiting deck or so it seems. No pot of gold today, but we'll look at this vibrant rainbow as a good luck charm, just the same.

Bec