Ragged Island to Water Cay

Our stay in the Raggeds and Jumentos has been all too short. We love this area but need to head north because of our schedule to be back in April. Ken and Belinda on Duet have the same constraint. So, we left the southern most of the Ragged Islands for the southern most of the Jumentos: Jamaica Cay. It is a small Cay with a little beach and plenty of swell. The 35 mile sail up to it was at 7K on a broad reach, the fastest angle of sail.

Sunday, we left at 8:30 AM for Water Cay. The wind angle was not so favorable: the second half of the trip from Flamingo Cay to Water Cay was at 35 degrees to the wind. We motor-sailed, Duet was able to sail it. Perhaps if we had used our cutter sail we would have been able to but I did not feel like going on the foredeck with 3-6 foot waves. We need to put it on a roller-furling like the jib so we can easily put it up and down from the cockpit.

It was a nice day anyway, not too long. Ken and I snorkeled with me taking a small grouper and he a triggerfish. The corals were the best I have seen on this trip.

We hope to go to Long Island tomorrow, hopefully we will have the SSE winds we need. If they shift as forecasted we will sail all the way to Salt Pond in Thompson Bay.

Good night for now, dinner is almost ready.

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