Sunday, March 29 — It rained hard throughout the night, and it was still raining in the morning. At 0500, it also became vey windy. We’d made plans to meet Scott and Sheila at the sailing club at 0945. We lucked out because the rain stopped as we were getting ready to go. Here was Eric bailing out the dinghy prior to our trek to shore.
Shortly after we tied up to the dock, the rain resumed and the wind picked up even more. We had come a little early so that we could buy a pass to use the dinghy dock, and were disappointed to find that the office didn’t open until 1000. We hung out under the sailing club’s covered patio until the office opened and we could get a pass.
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Dawn on Friday, March 27, taken as we were getting ready to go to sea.
And the sunrise.
We pulled up anchor at 0745. It was a mostly sunny day with scattered clouds. The conditions were uncomfortable until noon, with 14-knots of wind and fairly large waves on the beam. Keith got sea sick. Christi didn’t feel great. But then the wind calmed down a little down to 10 – 11 knots and the seas began to smooth out. By 1400, it was a nice ride. We ran at 1600 RPM and our speeds averaged in the low 6s.
Saturday, March 21 – Friday, March 27 — This week has been bittersweet. On Saturday, Tiki Tour, Zimovia and us decided to go to Little Bell Cay, but midway they changed their plans to go to Compass Cay. We did not want to go there. Instead we went to Samson Cay, but Tiki Tour and Zimovia decided the anchorage was too rough at Compass, so they went to Little Bell after all.
Big waves at Rachel’s Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas
Cette semaine est aigre-douce. Samedi, Tiki Tour, Zimovia et nous avons décidé d’aller à Little Bell Cay, mais ils ont décidé de changer leurs plans et d’aller à Compass Key. On ne voulait pas y aller. À la place, on a décidé d’aller à Sampson Cay, mais Tiki Tour et Zimovia ont décidé qu’il y avait trop de roulis à Compass, donc ils sont allés à Little Bell après tout.
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This morning, the anchorage was rolly and uncomfortable. We did our morning routine of school and chores, but Christi and Keith had to stop school work early because they were both getting nauseated from trying to read with all the motion (as an FYI, we generally did not do school work when Kosmos was in transit because of the propensity to get seasick).
We decided that we needed to escape the rocking and spend the day onshore. Other than the public park, there was nothing open to the public that was within walking distance. Since we were low on “passage foods,” we wanted to go to the grocery store. We also wanted to eat out for lunch. Eric looked up prices and found that it would cost $35 – $40 each way to take a taxi to the closest grocery store. We knew it would cost the same or less to rent a car for the day. The first two rental agencies that we called had no cars available, but the third place did. They said it would cost $60 for the car for the day, plus a $30 fee to pick us up and drop us back off. We agreed to the terms. We arranged to be picked up at noon at the public beach.
At the beach, there were pylons that looked like they were the remains of what was once a dock. A couple of dinghies were tied to the pylons, but we decided that, with the tide swing while we were gone, it would be safer to beach the dinghy. This was looking northwest from the beach.
