Never Bored and Time Enough weren't coming with us which we were pretty bummed about. Then Chris looked at the weather window and decided to go and Time Enough II followed. They only stayed with us till midnight and headed toward Rum Cay due to battery problem. Tt was very rough seas and Ed was seasick and I just wanted to sleep so no cooking that trip or eating. We arrived in Mayaguana
2:00 am on Sunday the 12th. We stayed there till the 16th due to wind conditions and left at 4:30 pm for the Tiki Huts anchorage at the northwest corner of Provodenciales (Provo) of the Turks and Caicos and arrived there at 3:30am on the 18th. We left on the 19th at 6:15 am and headed to Sopidilla Bay.
Ed and Chris went to check in and it took only 5 hrs from the time they left the boat till they returned and Chris'
daughter Linda and partner Amy were coming in that afternoon. We sure didn't think they would be gone for 5 hours.
The next day, Ed and I explored Provo on foot, hitch hiking and had lunch at the Conch Hut; it was 90 deg. That evening we got
to meet the girls and had a nice happy hour together. On Tuesday Time Enough II joined us and they had caught
a Mahi so we had dinner on Never Bored along with Nepenthe-Alex and Carol also on way to Trinidad; I made Rum Cake. We
played music and sang. Wednesday was Happy Hr. on our boat and I made carmel rolls and we had appetizers. I played
my keyboard and Chris showed me some new ways to use it. Ed played guitar and Bob fiddled.
We left for Ambergris at sun up on Thurs. and arrived at 4:00pm and we motored then picked our way through coral heads for
an hour to get to the anchorage. We snorkeled over to a reef near the boat which was very nice but pretty
small fish. We should have explored more today. We left at 11:00 to head to Big Sand Cay and unfortunately had
to motor again and we went right into the waves 5-7 feet; not what we had planned. One fuel filter got clogged so we switched to the alternate so replacing it is a job before leaving for Luperon. Before this year we would have had to replace it enroute but Ed added an alternate filter.
Today we explored the beach. Ann found some nuts we call hamburger beans plus some pretty shells. We are leaving for Luperon now and we have winds from the ESE 15K maybe going more east and upto 18K so with a course of 173M we will definitely be sailing hopefully arriving outside the harbor near sunup and before the trades override the island lee.
Next post will be from Luperon.
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