Location: Manjack Cay, Great Abaco Island, Bahamas
Position: N 26 49.332 W 077 22.089
We left Cooper’s Town three days ago and bounced back down to Manjack Cay to await a northeast frontal passage. The sail down was lovely – one of the nicest since we’ve been here.
We took advantage of the calm before the storm and went snorkeling with friends out on the reefs offshore on the east side of the island.
Yesterday we had some lovely lightening (and a few scary near misses), lots of rain (we’ve had more rain in the last week than we’ve had the entire time we’ve been in the Bahamas), and some pretty brisk, shifting wind.
This morning about 25 or 30 other boats sailed past us, getting staged for their return to the US. We’ll be doing the same tomorrow morning, heading for Great Sale Cay to spend the night. We’re hoping to make Beaufort, NC or Charleston, SC, but we’re willing to take Fernandina or Canaveral, FL at this point – we’re ready to come back!
Today we went for a lovely walk around the island and one last swim in this clear azure water. We will certainly miss that!
Here’s a link we’re going to try to update daily at least until we get back to the US. It will show you where we are on a map and / or satellite photo whenever we manage to update it:
http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=KI4FTC.
We’re hoping our next Khronicle will be sent from somewhere in the good old US of A.
Cheers,
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Mark & Julie share the email "Khronicles" sent to family and friends from aboard "Rachel", their Tayana 37 sailboat, from "Timmy" their 1987 Toyota Escaper micro mini motorhome, from "Rachel", their 1995 Gemini 105M catamaran, from their 2007 Winnebago View motorhome "No Sails" from their never-named Rockwood 18' travel trailer, and from their as-yet-unnamed 1998 Fleetwood Tioga motorhome.
