French Cay
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Tue 28 Feb 2012 14:27
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Our Position is 21:30.37N 72:12.36W
Tuesday 28th February
Presently anchored in the lee of French Cay, an
uninhabited scrap of coral and sand on the SW of Caicos Bank. We dropped the
hook at 09:20 after a tough sail from Ocean World Marina. After a slow start
with light winds, once clear of D.R. the wind picked upand the rarely fell below
twenty knots and most watches had several heavy rain squalls with wind speeds up
to 35knots. It was in the first of these when the genoa was poled out that we
snapped our second pole. The seas in this region seem particularly unpleasant
being steep breaking and confused.
The only other indecent was with a freighter which
when engaged on the VHF thought that despite the fact that he was overtaking a
sailing yacht, he was the stand on vessel. He sought advice from his superiors
and they put him right.
We are now ready to head over the bank to
Sapardilla Bay.
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