March 22, 2011
Today starts the end of Phase IV, the homeward bound leg. It will take about a week or so do set foot on US soil again and we are looking forward to a few weeks with family and friends. At around 1000 today, we leave Marsh Harbor and sail to Hopetown. We have guests aboard whom, for all practical purposes are crew. The former crew of S/V Liberty Call is with us for the trip back. We look forward to showing them a few of the places we have visited during our voyages in Abaco. Most of the crews we met in the Abacos have already returned to the mainland.
We say goodbye to Stan and Stella, the starfish we visited often, to Marsh Harbor with its particular rhythm of life, to the Jib Room where folks played dominoes every day and where one can have one of the best steaks available on planet Earth, to the cruiser’s net that is the daily “what’s happening” source, to the scenery on this big island and to the last of our cruising fleet.
It has been fun and we look forward to visiting these islands again. So, now it is back to the task (if you can call it that) of several days of sailing, this time with an eye always on weather. We are in hopes that day after tomorrow, the Whale will be asleep and that a few days thereafter the Stream will treat us kindly. This is fair warning to Texas that the scurvydawg crew of S/V Why Knot is heading your way.