We’ve really enjoyed New Bight, but we’re ready for the next adventure. Tuesday was a great day, sunny and beautiful with mild winds. Dave and Peggy were crossing over from Eleuthera, and we planned to move north to the top of Cat to meet them to travel back down together. Well, a submerged line fouled one of their props, and they had to turn back. So, we went ashore for ice cream instead.
As we said, we are always weather-watching, and all of our various weather sources (we use five different ones) were predicting sustained winds of better than 15 kts with gusts beyond 20 starting Wednesday. Rats, Dave and Peggy were going to stay in Rock Sound, Eleuthera, and given the “sporty” forecast, I guess we would hang right here. Wednesday comes and, oops, it was a great day, sunny and beautiful with mild winds. So, back to lil Gippy’s for more ice cream before the “blow” was to now start the next day.
Thursday comes and “OOPS again!, it’s a great day, sunny and beautiful with mild winds. Got an idea, let’s go to Gippy’s and get a snack and then ice cream! Afterwards, we can walk to the bakery! (Thinking this week’s weigh-in should be interesting…)
So, those rascal forecasters got it wrong. Missed it by not one but two days. Yesterday it finally started and continues. We’ve seen gusts over 30 already today. Forecasts have it blowing until next Tuesday….. Our dinghy is safely stowed… missing lil Gippy’s already….
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