We stayed put last night thanks to our lightweight fortress anchor and a little bit of underwater cable keeping us well positioned in the center of the harbor. All crew up and ready to go ashore by 9:30AM. Liz, Pat, & willy walked the town a little and found an Atlantic Beach front to explore. Peter went to the police station to report the underwater cable "fix". It turned out to be a multi million dollar telecommunications cable crossing to Nassau!! They called in a local to come to our boat to free it.
Our hero of today is a young local Bahamain, Sean (his grandfather came from Ireland), who came back in the dingy with Peter accompanied by his most beautiful 2yr o
ld daughter. Well Jane went into grandmother mode and had a blast playing while the boys freed the anchor from the cable. Sean also found our boat hook which took a dive yesterday while trying to unhook the anchor from our dingy. When Sean lay our boat hook over the edge he got a shock and told us we had a short on the boat. Well this is what has caused our red LED navigation light to remain lit all the time. Sean fixed that also. After a nice chat on board Peter settled up with him and took them ashore. Then he and Jane hauled anchor and moved Kinvara as close to the shore as possible to get away from the cable and prepare for a possible squall that night. Once our anchor was set we went to shore for lunch with Willy & Pat and a walk around the little town. Hopefully now the problems are solved (for a while anyw
ay).
ld daughter. Well Jane went into grandmother mode and had a blast playing while the boys freed the anchor from the cable. Sean also found our boat hook which took a dive yesterday while trying to unhook the anchor from our dingy. When Sean lay our boat hook over the edge he got a shock and told us we had a short on the boat. Well this is what has caused our red LED navigation light to remain lit all the time. Sean fixed that also. After a nice chat on board Peter settled up with him and took them ashore. Then he and Jane hauled anchor and moved Kinvara as close to the shore as possible to get away from the cable and prepare for a possible squall that night. Once our anchor was set we went to shore for lunch with Willy & Pat and a walk around the little town. Hopefully now the problems are solved (for a while anyw
ay).We were hoping to get lobsters for dinner but they were sold out so we settled for chicken curry.
That night we were facing south in 15-20K winds. By 3:15AM Jane woke to rain and went to check all the overhead hatches. The wind was blowing hard and Kinvara shifted completely around to the North. the winds stayed strong for about an hour. Jane and Liz sat up for a while checking our position to make sure Kinvara stayed put. By 4AM it was all over and we went back to sleep.
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