Follow Our Track
At anchor watching the sunset
Moored in MoW from the cockpit
This morning we tried to beat the low tide out of Hope Town, got underway at 7:30, but even though we have a fairly shallow draft sailboat we had to carefully watch the depth gauge. Our depth gauge is the oldest piece of electronics we have to rely on, it has a very loud and annoying alarm to warn you that you might be going aground, it always scares the crap out of me when it goes off, I’m yelling at Virginia “What the F__k is that?” Oh the depth gauge “honey press the silence alarm please.” She pressed it but it continue screaming; depth through the cut going out of Hope Town reading 6 feet we need 4.5, plenty of water! Bottom line it would not shut up, loud annoying buzz we are pushing the only button on the device, we could turn it off but we need it because its 1 hour before low tide and its damn shallow in places and unlike the forgiving mud bottom of the Chesapeake Bay this bottom is sand (no problem), coral (problem) and rocks (big problem). The noise was driving me nuts, we taped over the buzzer, after an hour listening to it, I ripped the buzzer off the back, silence! We dropped anchor just outside the town, shortly after we anchored we went swimming and snorkeling to cool off. After getting cleaned up some friends (Linda and Kip) from Mischief, a classic Alberg 37, came for a visit, later we had lunch and went into town. The town has a really nice grocery store and of course several churches, we walked to the ocean side to check out the beach, it appeared to be rough, we watched a sailboat navigating through the south Man-of-war channel, it appeared too rough for our boat (or I should say us). After a short tour of the town we came back to the boat had cocktail hour then had a great scrimp dinner. We think we will do another day here then head over to Treasure Cay, then Great Guana Cay, from there we will start on our trek south to Little Harbour. Little Harbour will be our last port of call in the Abacos. From there we will head to the warmer waters of the Exumas. Stay tuned!