The Weather Waiting Game

The view from our boats in Nassau, Paradise Island, Hurricane Hole Marina

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 (Day 18)

The weather report finally looks good for us to leave in the morning.  Today is a day of clean up, preparation for departure and re-provisioning anything needed such as milk, bread, and fresh vegetables. 

We meet the owner of Doman Shipbuilding.  His boat the Belletrix is between the Maine Event and Stocks & Blondes.  Comer & Jose, the owners were extremely nice.  He is leaving his sailboat here for 3 weeks and a college friend, Jay & Cornellia are staying on the boat during that time. 

Majesty of the Seas

Today a familiar boat from the past (Debbie's past) came into the cruise boat pier, The Majesty of the Seas.  Debbie spent 3 days aground off Nantucket Shoal on this boat with my friends Meigs and Paul.  This sure brought back some memories. 


 

Randy shared some of the mahi and wahoo he caught so we all had a fish cookout.  We are usually big mahi fans, but tonight the wahoo seemed a little better.  Bill did a great job with the cooking. 

 Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Monday, May 18, 2015 (Days 15 -17)

Internet here is very expensive and billed by time of use so we have all been sharing an account.   We have to sign up for it in bulk hours and those hours seem to go very fast. 

The days are filled with watching the weather reports and continuing to enjoy the Atlantis Adventure Water Park, exploring with the dinghy’s, visiting downtown Nassau (by day only), and watching the boats go by on the river.  Jerry, Marja, John H and Tracey went to “kiss” a dolphin.  The girls went downtown by dinghy to do some shopping and everyone has made the best out of our wait for better seas to get to Highbourne Cay. 

Bill and Debbie meet up with Bob & Ginger on Quality Time, we had meet and travelled with them on our trip north last summer and then met them again at DiMillos in Portland, Maine.  It was fun to see them again here.  We also saw another boat “Cocktails” come into Atlantis Marina in which we had meet them in Charleston on our trip coming south last summer.  We have not caught up with them yet, but maybe today. 

Monday night we gathered for dinner on the Marlin Striker to talk about current weather conditions and the trip to Highbourne Cay Marina.  There are many coral heads just under the surface on this run and it will be important to leave with the proper sunlight so we can see the coral heads and travel carefully.  The weather is looking much better so we are planning on leaving on Wednesday, May 20^th.   Everyone is very anxious to get to the Exuma’s but also cautious about the weather and coral heads. 

The days have been between 82-88 degrees with lots of sun, winds out of the east 15-25 and scattered showers mostly in the afternoon.  It has been very comfortable on shore, but the seas have been 4-6 feet or greater. 

We meet Randy and Andrea on Fast Days last week who went to Chub Cay to fish over the weekend and when they returned on Monday evening they said that the seas were “very bad” and they did not have the fishing that they had hoped for because of the east winds and high seas.  We will hope for better for us.