Our jump down to Great Harbour Cay was exactly what we expected!! We had strong northeast wind that pushed us along at speeds ranging from low 6 knots up the low 8 knots. It was a gray, cloudy day but the rain held off which was nice. We left Ginn Sur Mer around 6:30 Saturday (Nov. 30) morning and arrived at our anchorage in the dark at 7 pm. We’ve anchored here before in the dark so it was easy to drop the hook into a good sandy spot.
The first day of December was a very rainy one here. Great way to clean off our salty deck from the sail down. We had decided the night before that we were going to do absolutely nothing on Dec. 1. We have been going hard without a true day long break since we left Canada on Oct. 27!! And we’ve travelled over 420 nm in 8 days. Some time off was definitely needed!! We started our day with a super slow breakfast. Mark made himself some French toast and topped it with some whipped cream! We drank our coffee and relaxed with our devices.
The extend of my activities for the day was to do some dishes, clean up the cockpit from our travels and lastly I decorated the inside of the boat for Christmas! Mark ran the Honda generator which we greatly needed after a long sailing day that had no sun and not enough wind to keep up with our energy expenditure. It sure felt good to not travel somewhere and to not do boat jobs.
Our anchorage is fairly large but well protected from the northeasterly wind we’re getting for the next few days. There are 2 other boats with us – one large power boat from Canada and one other sailboat. It’s very quiet here and with the rain yesterday and the strong winds today, we haven’t seen anyone moving around. Hopefully Tuesday will be a better weather day and we will be able to explore the area.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 