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so Sunday the 4th of February it's just before noon
and we're still here at, where are we again?
oh, my goodness
Still working. Are you having a glue crisis?
Yeah. Little bit of hard stuff in there. Keeps blocking
Do it that much and clogs.
Yeah. And cant unscrew the end of that one either
Yeah. Thats why Im having this crisis
Still working.
Things are starting to look a little more organised
We are at Boot ....
We are actually waiting for the wind to turn
Yeah. We are waiting for a southerly change to come. It's still easterley right
now not ideal for heading away to Bimini
we're at Boot Key Harbor, found a really
nice little anchorage right by the bridge
That's Boot Key behind us
Zaya is putting in some inspection hatches into the pod
we've been watching the weather forecast and
it looks like the southerly change is only an hour or so away we're hoping and
then we can take off for 120 mile passage up to Bimini and then they
forecast a westerly change which would be perfect just to roll on through to
Nassau maybe a two days sail 120 up to Bimini and another 80 or so onto Nassau
or around the Great Bahama Bank but the north end this time the north end around
Andros so we'll wait and see but if the weather gods are in our favor we
could be in Nassau after a non-stop sail Tuesday sometime on Tuesday arrival
in the daylight with a passage across the Bahama Bank
in the daylight tomorrow so fingers crossed so that would be ideal that'll
get us into Nassau three or four days before our first guests arrive
yeah. that would be ideal
it would be ideal all right and then we'd have enough time to finish the last of the jobs and
allow us to deflate the doll and hide it away
deflate the doll and hide it away. Did you say that?
[LAUGHS]
Yeah. We always deflate the the inflatable toys before the guests turn up.
Ummm. Moving on.
I've lost my train of thought now.
and we might have time to clean the boat as well before they get here actually we
had some good spray over the deck on the way through here and it really did clean
the boat this final final nooks and crannies that need to be done as well
anyway that's it from us now the beautiful day. Shame we are breezing
through Boot Key it looks like a really interesting place. It got hit pretty hard
by Irma, there's plenty of evidence of that around but the
rebuilding is underway and apparently there's a ton of work here for
Carpenters people want to work in the service industries and so on so yeah
Yeah. It's an old rope.
It happens.
Looks like we are hooked on an old rope or something. An old mooring
We topped off our fuel tanks at Marathon. We have two Yamaha 9.9 horsepower outboard
engines and carry 25 gallons of fuel it gives us a range of over 200 miles on
one engine at three knots in calm weather or about 100 miles at five knots
on both engines
Just saw a shark, but he is gone.
The boat will do a little over 7 knots
at full speed on a calm sea
no gulfstream yet we're getting knocked
we're supposed to get a soberly change and then if anything it's gone slightly
east or on the nose pushing us in back into the shore away from the Gulf Stream
first Matt Lake said don't believe the weather forecasts for the state of
Florida probably right Monday morning thought the debris on
that's exam in the morning we had a pretty good night sale of a lot of wind
and 5 or 7 knots breeze and we tried to pick up the Gulf Stream fairly early
I believe in boot key Harbor by heading out at 90 degrees the coastline
indistinctly Gulf Stream but it didn't really work out two or three hours of
steaming straight into 15 not southeasterly that
as a parent the Gulfstream wasn't really there or if it was it was pretty fickle
so we turned to the Northeast put ourselves on there inning for Bimini
area and took a much more for the Keane angle to intersect the Gulfstream some
12 hours later so he left at 2 p.m. yesterday and 2 a.m. this morning we
finally got about a half of assistance from the Gulf Stream water temperature
went from 24 and a half to 25 and a half degrees C when you were in it didn't get
stronger than that the NOAA website only forecast up to 2 knots that was about
right as predicted at one point during the night we passed by quite close to
two passenger ships that were well lit they were heading south and normally any
southbound traffic tries to avoid the Gulf Stream so they sit on the edges of
it that was a pretty good sign when we passed those guys and sure enough we did
hit the Gulf Stream shortly after crossing their Stearns the Gulf Stream
was sitting in about 500 feet or 170 meters of water during the night I began
reading up on Van Sant's book and so now the guidebooks we have on board and
riding rocks look to be about it as good a place as he need across the Grand
Bahama Bank so that's what we're aiming for we should get there around the
today we've got a better 50 odd mile crossing at the bank most of which we
have to do during the daylight if the weather holds and the fuel holds then
we'll steam straight on finesse all that remains to be seen
we've just used their first tanker gas motor sailing at about 80 miles by
sailing on one tank which is pretty good I think we got
he's white and see a bit of shipping around now we're in the middle of Gulf
Stream the north gun ships tankers and freighters and I've been the problem for
us missing most of them by two or three hours never really liked going and
funded them it's been watching this guy here zoom in a bit
see federal ends he's bioship at there in
Carly's 144 with us that's the one we watch the Sorrell it appearing to us if
that doesn't change over time then you're on a collision course I think he
was about 152 before so his bearing is coming down most Awards what they're
eating is in other words he's gonna pass in front of our settings I like to and
the closest point of approach is going to be the two miles will pass two miles
of crosses stand is relative speed the time the closest approach here and hours
15 minutes we'll be passing him on a boat with two engines a simple way to
learn the importance of speed versus range is to run both engines at similar
rifts and check what speed you're doing then turn one engine off you just cut
your fuel consumption by half now check your speed it will be over half what you
are doing previously therefore you just extended the range of your boat we're
disposing South Riding Rock just in the background
we've crossed the Gulf Stream and now we bout into the Great Bahama Bank the
couple hundred meters down the ten meters pretty suddenly
we're just going through the cut at the moment
pick up there of course trust a Northwest channel and then down to
Nestle very little wet we've got I have not wasted layers
predicted really not enough to push us in any
appreciable speed so we're motoring got the three sales up
but they are dragging us nor
propelling us they are just hanging like flags all very pleasant so far it's
probably fairly typical crossing at the Gulf Stream given that everyone avoids
it anything over 15 knots and certainly anything at all from the north or
Norway's through East Lee what Evans next remains to be seen we've got
IVA cast conditions that have just moved in with the westerly
stronger easterly change which hopefully will be across the bank and hitting
South to Nassau before that arrives you'll see the water colors has changed
familiar Green cerulean and speaking of cerulean
who's looking cerulean today so the color of your top look you match the sea
perfectly camouflaged we ran at least one engine the whole league to Chucky
where we turned to enter Northwest channel we wanted to keep the hammer
down to miss the easterly change but it
quickly became a fuel and distance equation fortunately the wind arrived in
the morning but it was on the nose
it's Tuesday morning 7:30 we're just off Nassau or New Providence
island nassau suffolk all what better known as we've been hard on the wind for
all night they say gentlemen don't sail to
windward and if we had our choice we wouldn't be but we wanted to make Nassau
before the strong easterlies God and this afternoon though we've managed to
do that but it has involved into the motor sailing and a bit of dis motoring
in town yesterday which is left is very low on fuel we've got about another 18
miles or so that hit up into the wind to reach an S or Harbor unfortunately we
weren't able to lay it on one tank from choppy where we arrived off 1 a.m. this
morning so we've sailed the boat hard on the
wind we've been doing six to seven knots over one meter see in about 15 knots and
trees the both of the point terribly high where there's any sort of truck
running
what we found with the Wharram is if we do have to go to whether it's good to
run an engine just give you a bit of extra power to climb up over the waves
allow you to pinch a bit higher allows you to finish the boat and achieve that
attacking angles but now we're low on fuel so you probably don't have
sufficient feel we've got about six hours of hard running in one tank lift
that are there on one engine and that'll be tough to do that without sufficient
fuel to reach Nassau harbour without stopping there's very few places to stop
outside now so armored it's one marina which we have managed to lay more or
less on the western end of the island who lifted marina it's very exclusive by
the sounds of it the most exclusive residential property in the world there
they don't welcome the same boats although they do sell their fuel and
propane and so forth they won't offer you a slip it's unfortunate that's
without a doubt we would stop there rather than push on so what we're going
to do is colons and lifted fuel up that'll give us a bit of comfort to get
around in this or Harbor the south and then hopefully ahead of the easterly
which should come in between twenty and twenty eight dollars that'll be hard on
the nose probably motoring under two engines and bouncing our way up an S or
not ideal but there's what it is we've achieved what we set out to do which was
to get here before their strong easterlies just the ill situation that
leaves us with this a bit of a conundrum right at the end
sighs just down below getting some clothes and respectful clothing for us
to wear on our landfall here at life 15 hey marina there was a near run thing
with the fuel we must be running on the smell of an oily rag turns out looks
like we've got enough didn't stop us from emptying three so-called empty cans
and the one can to get a couple more Cup forms of gas in readiness on the
starboard engine and caseless port engine gave out models but which is
called life a day and they're happy to sell us until we might push our luck and
see if they'll give us a slip at a reasonable price
but they don't accept yachts during the winter months in the summer and the
summer months apparently you can persuade them to bring you a year
well that was a super quick pit stop at life at Key marina we were there
literally five minutes I'd say they were efficient we took on 25 gallons of gas
couldn't get propane here but now we're gonna push on for a Nassau proper it's
11 a.m. and the easterly supposed to start filling in after lunch so the
pressures still on us
well we just arrived off Nestle our western entrance and into our motor
straight into the wind no sign of the easterly yet so it's great we're
arriving at about 1:30 in the afternoon
is called up Nestle have a control and they given us permission Dean so anger
for the night and then we'll proceed to God Haven tomorrow where I understand
they have a free sled for boats that are wanting to clear customs and immigration
and complete all the formalities as in that cute Nassau harbor control over
building shock just like a ship
what a baby
the great a to be arriving
we don't care this afternoon and this evening we're going to stay on the boat
find some of their stock tango I get some rest
pretty happy to be here about 370 miles it's within the bowel back on Friday and
it's been gogo all day every day then go go all day every day for the last two
and a half months so couple of rum and cokes tonight soft
pillow life could be better
someone's already found a soft pillow oh
yeah we've got some lovely steaks so lovely written me to barbeque or try out
tonight I guess that's the Atlantis Resort over there
nothing like completing a voyage and like you've actually accomplished
something we had our small trials and tribulations along the way nothing too
great lots of head-scratching
thinking about fuel economy and navigation routes and location of the
Gulf Stream and what the weather is gonna do what the Plan B's where if
everything went haywire
in the end it'll work at as it normally does
so yeah good to be here three days ahead of our first guest all those in either
Memphis is we're looking forward to meeting them
getting the basic and really spot-on for their arrival
this is the Anchorage they quite MPPT anchor here for next great one opposite
the yoga retreat and because that Atlantis on Paradise Island the
following day we cleared in and started on the last of the boat jobs the day
before our guests arrived and as if to herald the end of the boat work we
noticed some familiar music coming from the beach at Paradise Island
could it really be then we move the boat closer and then after the concert that
night
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