Wednesday February 23, 2011

Jerry and I were up early. We had shopping to do before heading out of the anchorage. We drank a cup of coffee and headed back into the settlement to finalize our purchases.

When we got to Sally’s Boutique, it was closed, Jerry set on a picnic table next to the water. I went searching for Sally. I spoke with a gentleman and he told me that Sally lived directly across the street from here shop. I knocked on the door. No answer. I walked around to the back. Sally was hanging a wash cloth on the clothes line. I greeted her with a pleasant Good Morning. She was still in her night clothes but remembered me from yesterday. I told here that Jerry and I wanted to purchase some items from her for our wives before setting sail. She told me that she would get dressed and meet ma at here shop.

After purchasing the gifts for our wives Sally wished us safe sailing and we headed back to the boat. Jerry hoisted the anchor, while I fired up the Honda. At 9:30am we motored out of the harbor at Man-O-War Cay.

Our route to Green Turtle is north east. Today the wind is very light 5 knots and is directly out of the north east. We had to motor most of the way. Light winds today are good, because we must use the Shale Cay Passage and that will take us out into the Atlantic Ocean and then back into the Sea of Abaco.

It is important to have good weather while transiting Whale Cay passage. If the wind and the tides are opposite one an other, a “surge’ can occur and they are very dangerous. This looks like a perfect day to do the Whale Cay passage. Tommy Aubury told us that the weather tomorrow was going to be pretty heavy. Twenty knot winds are expected.

Since the fishing was good yesterday, I put the line in the water and we fished the entire time we were traveling to Green Turtle and came up empty. Six hours of dragging a line and nothing today.