It’s been a very fast couple of days since we left Spanish Wells. On Friday, March 17th we motored over to Egg Island so we could be ready to make the 59nm trip to the Abacos early Saturday morning. Egg Island was small and offered good wind protection for the south east predicted wind. We were one of 4 boats when we arrived around noon and by night, there were 9 of us.
It was a very long night!! Although we had some wind protection, we had terrible swells and waves wrapping around and into the anchorage. We bounced and rolled all night! The only positive thing I can say is that we were able to leave at 7am Saturday without hesitation because we were wide awake from all the rolling!!
Our sail north to North Bar Channel (an inlet at the north end of Lynyard Cay, Abacos) was crazy! We were expecting good wind from the south (and a bit from the east) and waves about 1.5m in size from the east. We ended up getting way more!! Winds were in the high teens most of the day and the waves swelled up to 2m by midday. We did some crazy surfing down waves as they crashed in behind us. It was a “sporty” ride and that kind of travelling is very tiring (especially when you haven’t slept well the night before). The fun part was heading north with lots of other boats. We even passed 2 of the boats that were in the same anchored as us! We cleared the North Bar Channel a little after 4pm and made it to our next anchorage by 5pm. We were in the Abacos!!
Today (Sunday) we motored the 8nm to Hope Town and were super lucky because our friends Julia and Brad got us a mooring ball in the harbour! It’s great to be back at Hope Town and really nice to be on a mooring ball. A fairly good storm is predicted for the next couple of days so we feel very safe and secure here in the harbour. Time to relax for a few days!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 