Day 17 – 12/18/18 – Tuesday.
WE MADE IT! It’s hard to relate the relief & joy we all felt when our anchor dropped into the sand at Royal Island, Bahamas tonight. We had an easy calm day of fast motorsailing in calm seas, arriving shortly before dark. Our arrival gift was a sunset resembling a fireworks show. We are inside a tiny harbor with only 3 other boats and full protection from all directions and are looking forward to a flat calm night with hours of (hopefully) undisturbed sleep!! A huge butterfly just joined us in the cockpit after our family story time to end the day. What a nice welcome to the Bahamas!
We will continue in the morning to the nearby town of Spanish wells to do our customs and immigration check in. We didn’t have enough daylight to make it that last 5 miles today.
Took us 42hrs in total. The first 26hrs crossing Gulf stream and then the Bahama Banks. Then we had our emergency anchoring for 6hrs at Chubb Cay and today continued another 9hrs after clearing our seaweed issue. 213.4 miles total with an average speed of over 6 knots (much faster than Mandolin!).
Now it’s time for sleep!
Fun Afloat 