Sailing Sunnyside

We woke up before 7 am. Mark checked us out and we dropped our lines. I manned the helm while Mark pulled up the fenders and ines and put them in the front locker. There was cloud cover and it looked misty out. It took the sun until mid morning before it poked...

We woke up at 6:30 am and decided to get up and go. Mark got the boat ready for leaving. I made us hot drinks. The breeze was cold. I wore a sweater and jacket while at the helm.

Mark hauled anchor just before 7 am. I was at the helm until he...

Mark hauled anchor by 7:30 am, but had to spray off all the mud off the chain and anchor. Thankfully, we had a hose attached to the anchor locker. The water was calm and everything reflected into it. There were two cruise ships at the port.

We...

We didn’t wake up until 8:30 am today. I think we may have caught up on our missed sleep. The sun was shining so our batteries were charged. We turned on Starlink for a while. There was a light chop on the water, but we had a very comfortable and quiet...

Mark hauled anchor in Cross Bay, West End, Bahamas at 2:30 pm. It took a few spins around before the boat would stay in the wind with one engine running and Mark could hoist the main sail. Lots of boats, both power and sail, coming to the marina.

We arrived and dropped anchor by 5 am in Cross Bay, just outside West End, Abacos, marina entrance. There were two other boats in this anchorage and we motored closer to shore in-between them.

The one boat turned his running lights on and hauled...