Finally we are on the move again. We cruised down the coast to Port Canaveral, where we caught up with good friends at the yacht club. Then on to West Palm Beach and then across to The Bahamas.
We checked in at West End, but soon realised that we were in the middle of the hurricane season and there were a couple of systems forming in the Atlantic. So we decided to head for shelter at the Grand Bahama Yacht Club, stay there for a month and then haul the boat at Freeport and head home to New Zealand for a break off the boat, see the kids etc.
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| No Rehearsal on the quay at The Grand Bahama Yacht Club |
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| So, we would work in the mornings and then after lunch head to the lovely pool for a couple of hours. There were not too many boats on the dock and so we usually had the luxury of having the pool to ourselves, what luxury! |
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| I am getting quite good at growing Basil, maybe I do have green fingers after all, I just need to remember to water them! |
Then, we had heard that there was some heavy weather due and we decided to put some more mooring lines on. Daryl was in the dingy sorting out extra lines, when there was a huge bolt of lightening, the noise was horrendous and the water seemed to fizz around us.
By now it was raining heavily and we sheltered inside, when it stopped we noticed quite a bit of debris on the deck that used to live at the top of the mast, so it must have been a direct hit to the top.
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These do not belong on the cockpit table!
More about this in the next blog............................... |
