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| Sunrise and the old saying"Red sky in morning, sailors take warning." |
We left Current Cut anchorage at 7 AM, but the three other boats had already left at dawn and were about a mile ahead of us. We passed through the cut between Little Egg and Big Egg Island in Atlantic onto Abaco.
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| This 25' ODay was able to make the entire crossing doing wing-on-wing. Glen, they were fishing the entire way. |
The weather forecast is not the best. Thunderstorms predicted for this area later today with winds increasing. John has the Sirus Weather and can see the storms that are pounding the Florida coast. In an effort to maximize our speed, Pete kept raising, changing, lowering and modifying our sails while maintaining our course. We started off in the back of the pack. We knew we would pass the 27 foot Oday, which was sailing wing-on-wing, but we were surprised to pass the 46 foot Oyster, along with 2 other larger sailboats using just their mains. Pete told Brunelle and Andiamo to not hold back just for us. We will be ok and prepared, should it become necessary. We were able to catch up with them before they reached Little Harbor and followed them into the anchorage at Lynyard Cay.
After some discussion as to whether or not to stay on the windward side of Lynyard Cay for this possible storm or seek a more protected anchorage, the decision was made to stay put here.
John and Betty invited everyone over for a pork dinner. As usual, a great time was had by all and we were home by dusk.
~ ~ (\_~ ~ ~ Kathy and Pete
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