We left Staniel Cay behind yesterday (as well as the mosquitoes) and had a wonderful sail (NO MOTOR) to Farmer's Cay. The course into the cay was a little serious. The charts and guide books tell you to set a 90' course to the little white house on the hill. So that's what we did. Jane stood on the bow atop the life raft box, life jacket on & tied on, with headphones connected to Peter on the helm. It's what the charts call VPR...visual piloting rules....basically you read the water instead of your GPS because the sand bars are constantly shifting. We made it safely into the inside harbor and followed directions on the VHF from the "mooring meister" who gave us visual and magnetic references to the anchorage. We set 2 anchors "Bahamian" style to account for the currents. Well we were partially over a sand bar so when the tides started to roll in or out our boat started to roll from side to side pretty violently. Needless to say we did not sleep..peter stayed in his clothes...worry about the anchor....noises from everything knocking or rolling. Our morning weather report did not make us feel better. The winds were picking up today to 20k, tomorrow 22-25k and a front coming through here Friday to Saturday with squalls 30-40k. So we were lucky to move to the Farmers Cay Yacht Club dock. They have 4 spaces, no electric, water, or showers but it's calm and protected from the SW winds coming.
The owner is Roosevelt Nixon, a local Bahamian, and a really nice person. he let us use his 1 washer & dryer for free and gave us wireless for free. There was a happy hour with Rum punch for $3 and free conch fritters. We had a blast with about 20-30 other people So tonight we sit, relaxing after steak on the grill & salad. Life is good.
Tomorrow and Saturday we plan to enjoy their famous 5F festival...Farmers First Friday Famous Festival. There are suppose to be boat races tomorrow and food stalls, etc. Then our marina is sponsoring the super bowl party Sunday afternoon. So we may stay for that and leave Monday for Georgetown. Tomorrow we will post some pictures of this pretty place.
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