It’s our last night in the Bahamas before we fly home for Christmas. This week has gone by quickly with a few interesting moments. Our dock neighbours on the 51ft catamaran spent the week going back and forth to the airport – family arriving and departing 4 out of 5 days!! We met their sons and had a nice dinner out with them and Carolyn and Nick. They left this morning, heading for Georgetown.
The big event of the week was the arrival of a 50ft Jeanneau sailboat. The solo sailor aboard this boat is a 79 year old German man, named Michael, who sailed up from Puerto Rico. The big scary part of his story happened as he was heading into the Staniel Cay area of the Exumas. As he was coming in through a cut near Bitter Guana Cay a rogue wave hit him from the stern. The cockpit filled with water and the wave took out his dodger. Worse still he lost his sail drive (basically it’s his propeller shaft and propeller). He managed to limp into an anchorage using only his jib because his main sail had been damaged earlier in his trip north. He also lost his phone in all the turbulence!!
It took a bit of time and effort but Michael managed to get hold of a towing company. His boat was towed from Black Point to our dock overnight!! He arrived here around 9am Dec. 20 and after we had his boat secured along side our boat, he was able to relax. Now the job is to get his boat into a shipyard to be repaired. One good thing happened this morning. Michael was looking at his generator and found his phone! It didn’t end up in the water and it still works!!
We’ll have one more happy hour tonight with Carolyn, Nick and Michael. It will be a small gathering but that’s a nice way to end our week. In the morning we’ll head to the airport for 1pm and be back in Toronto by 7:30pm.
Next post will probably be in 2025!! Merry Christmas and happy New Year!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 