Headin’ West

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

It turns out that last night was our last night in the Bahamas!

As you recall, we had to wait 5 days for our fuel filter to come in from Nassau, and the last two days of that wait were perfect travel weather. The forecast for the next week looked rough, so I was afraid we had missed our chance to move on. We liked Spanish Wells, but it was getting old.

So we emailed Chris Parker – our subscription weather service – and he suggested that – rather than going back through the Abacos, we just run due west to Chub Cay on Wednesday (today), then to Bimini on Thursday, and back to Ft Lauderdale on Friday.

He urged us to get into Chub by noon, as he was watching a line of squalls that would materialize in the afternoon. So we left at 6:30 and tied up here at 11:25. It was rougher than we like, but the boat (with its new fuel filter) ran well.

Here’s two shots of our last (moonlit) night in Spanish Wells.

Walking back from dinner.

View from the back of our boat

Tomorrow, we cannot leave early, because conditions are expected to improve as the day goes along. The plan is to leave around 10AM and roll into Bimini just before sunset. I’m not accustomed to traveling that late in the day, but that is our weather window.

It looks like it is again going to be rougher than we like, but we have to move in order to catch favorable weather for crossing the Gulf Stream on Friday. Friday is supposed to be “benign”! I sure hope that’s true.

TTFN