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March 16th

We had a great trip to our first anchorage Great Sail Cay. We only saw one boat that was three miles away. It was my first anchoring with this boat and our new anchor. Thank you kids for the Marriage Savers. These are a head set you can talk person to person from bow to the stern without screaming, hence the name marriage savers. Had you wondering, didn’t I? We anchored but were so tried we had to work at staying awake for the sunset. It was worth the wait!


March 17th St. Patrick’s Day
We cooked breakfast. We had to wait until the fog lifted about 10:00. We didn’t mind the wait because we were still a little tired from our crossing. When we tried to pull up the anchor we realized the windlass was not working. This is the motor that raises the anchor. George wanted to work on his biceps anyway. He pulled it up with the wench. We had a wonderful motor/sail to Powell Cay. We average 6.0 knots, sometimes going as fast as 7.2 knots. We got there at 4:00 PM. We had left over Pizza from Fort Pierce and warmed up in a frying pan. Who needs a Microwave? Again it was an effort to wait until the sunset to go to sleep. Again it was worth the wait.

March 18th
After a breakfast of eggs and toast, we pulled anchor at about 10:30. We headed for our next destination, Marsh Harbour, where we hope to meet up with our buddy boat. We had to travel thought Whale pass which is unprotected water and was a little rough. Between 11:00 and 11:30 we heard a familiar sound on the VHF radio “Celebration Celebration this is Martini”. Our buddy boat, Martini was trying to hail us. We got into Marsh Harbour with the crew of Martini waiting for us to throw them the lines. It was a great reunion. We went to curly Tails and then on to Snappers for dinners. Jack reminded us we had been on the boat for 74 hours. That was shocking to realize we were on the water for that long. It seems Martini’s crew was ready for some of Celebration’s provisions. They keep talking about salmon from a bag with rice. However, Martini did have fresh lobster one night and steaks another night.