We made it to Nassau, arriving a about 700AM, with a bit of a wait for the cruise ships and a cargo vessel to all get in. I think we will be going to Allen’s Cay next, in a few days. We are anchored right off of a Yoga retreat – they were out under their vernada doing poses as the sun set tonight.
We tried over at the “main” anchorage next before the bridge, but the bottom was grass, and it was too shallow, we might have been aground at low tide, it was too close to tell. Much better here, 20 ft depth, and sand – dug right in.
The boats we crossed with were Living Well (hunter 420)with Steve and Mary Ann, and Midori (PDQ 32) with Brian and Lynn. LW had radar, so they could see the light at the NW passage, which was out. We arrived there about 9:30pm. We motored the whole way – the wind even clocked around back to the nose when we got through the channel ;<. It was on the nose almost the entire way. There was a bit of fun tying up to get fuel before we anchored. We pulled up close to the dock, and Gretchen passed the dock hand a spring line. He tied it off, but with about 15 feet of slack. Then she handed him a bow line, which after a few seconds, he haded back to her??? Twice? In the meantime, the current had caught the boat and the spring was now stretched fully, with no other lines to the boat. We finally sorted it out. The only thing we can figure out is that the dock hand tought when she said that she needed the bow line, he meant that she wanted it back. Very odd!
