Day 1 - Florida - Bahamas

27:25.2N
79:54.8W
Morning
starts with drilling again - a bigger hole to access those elusive windlass
electrical wires - finally accessing them - voltage check indicates the
motor is in some way burnt out - not the ships wiring. - problem solved but
not the solution - even at Marine Liquidators (an Aladdin’s cave
otherwise a warehouse) of miscellaneous ships’ items could not supply
a new windlass motor.. So,
time to go - we left the marina at mid-day (high tide to clear the barge on
exit), quick stop at the fuel dock the re-load our life-raft and away to
the Bahamas - BUT wait - we read the cloud formations over breakfast -
"alto-cumulus" (flocks of sheep) - thunderstorms in the afternoon – never-mind a
little rain won't hurt - off we went to cross the Gulf Stream and make for West
End - Grand Bahamas Island. Phil and Di |