At each anchorage, we are off a new island, or Cay. Each one has an active airstrip. A plane lands or takes off every hour or so. The pilots are expert at cross wind conditions, since that is what they see most often.

So while I was out sailing yesterday, after several hours, my instrument display suddenly went dark. I dove down below to find out what happened. Did I lose power? It turned out to be something simple. I no longer store my jar of nuts on the shelf because the sun shines on that side of the hull and the shelf gets pretty warm. However, putting the nuts away is not part of my standard stowing the boat for passage habit. So the jar slid down the counter and expertly turned off the Instruments Switch, which toggles side to side. Geez!

Yesterday was not the restful day my back needed to recover. Bending over a bucket today doing laundry also make it complain, so I spent a few moments on my back to let it rest.

There is a current here, so the anchor rode sometimes disappears under the boat. It is not catching the keel and the boat always seems to pull on the anchor in the same direction, which is a good thing. The boat rotates 180 degrees, but it always pulls in the same direction.

The evening was spent at the yacht club bar with Roger, Tari, Bruce and Chris. Nice big boats to look at also. Our other buddy boat could not find a spot they liked here, so they moved 7 miles down the chain.