On Tuesday, April 15, we got up at 0545 to do the last minute things to get ready to go. We pulled up anchor at 0620. The sunrise was completely blocked by the thick cloud cover, but the moon did peek out between the clouds at one point. 

In the map below, where we left from, Governor’s Harbour, is marked to the right. Our final destination was the dot up at top left corner. The arrow points to The Cut, the narrow channel that we needed to pass through at higher tide.

Since we were in protected waters, it was a calm ride. We approached The Cut at about 1100. While The Cut itself was fairly deep, the channel leading up to it was only eight feet deep at high tide and quite narrow, necessitating that we go through the channel single file. Outside the channel, it was only 3 – 4 feet deep, so we had to keep a sharp eye on the charts to make sure we were staying in the channel or else we’d be grounded. There were four boats on our side (going east to west) that were all approaching the channel. We coordinated over the radio the order that we would line up in. We were third.  

continued from yesterday... Kosmos hadn’t drifted at all, so we decided it was safe to leave her. We got ourselves cleaned up and headed to the nearby resort, called the French Leave, for an early dinner.

We picked it because of they had a dinghy dock (pictured above). We’d been warned that the beach landings here were problematic. This dock wasn’t exactly easy, either. The ladder wasn’t at the dock, which meant we had to unload at the ladder and manually pull Kosmopolitan over to the dock. There were several obstacles, making it a bit challenging.

Sunrise on Monday, April 14

The nearly full moon was visible for quite a while after sunrise.

We again faced the same dilemma that we’d faced last week. The wind was changing to a direction that had no protection in this anchorage, and we needed to move someplace more protected. We’d picked Spanish Wells, to the north. But, due to strong currents and shallow depths in an area called “The Cut,” we could only go through “The Cut” at high tide, which on Tuesday would be 1000. 

On Wednesday, April 9, we were awoken at 0330 by thunder and heavy rain. The wind was 20-knots. Eric got up and monitored the lightning storm for a while, concerned that we might drag. After about 45-minutes, he felt comfortable that Kosmos was secure and went back to bed. 

Later, when we got up for the day, it was still raining and the anchorage had become a little bit rocky. The wind had already started shifting from the south to the west, and it was forecast to continue to shift west and then to the north. This anchorage was going to be very uncomfortable by late afternoon.

At 0800, there was a break in the rain. We quickly got the dinghy up and Kosmos ready for sea. The forecast was for heavy rain and more lightning, so we wanted to move before the rain resumed. At 0900, we moved 3 nm northeast within the bay to Rock Sound West (from the red dots up to the purple dots).

We anchored in 7 feet of water. It was pretty calm when we anchored, and it got even calmer as the wind continued to shift. The other three families who were in South Rock Sound with us all eventually came, too. 

The rest of the day was low key. In the evening, Haste Away invited us over, and we had a nice time with them.

Dawn on Thursday, April 10