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Entrance to harbor from the channel |
March 10, 2002 - Saturday
I had expected to stay another couple of days at Lucaya, but Bob thought he saw a weather window with the wind from the south coming up for Sunday. So we left Lucaya and had a nice sail from Lucaya to West End on Saturday. - 31.8 nm.
We ate dinner at the very expensive restaurant.
March 11, 2002 - Sunday.
It was supposed to be nice to go Sunday, but it wasn't. The wind was still from the north. So we stayed there another day. The boat next to us that did leave Sunday had their jib blown out.
A boat that I think was a bareboat came into the slip beside us - between us and a big power boat. They tied off without speaking to the harbor master. I think it was three couples - older men with trophy wives. One of the ladies was wearing a captains hat with gold braid, a black bra top, and grey striped harem pants.
Then later, CAROLINA came in and the harbor master (not being able to see the slip because of the big power boat) told them to go in next to us. I got on the radio and told him that there was already a boat in that slip. So they put CAROLINA on the end of our dock. Bob came to help with the lines and so did some other people. I came and watched.
Carol of CAROLINA later told me that she appreciated that I was the only one on the dock (of the 4 or 5 people there) who wasn't telling her what to do. I had to laugh at the idea of me telling anyone else how to dock their boat.
We didn't want to eat in the (expensive) restaurant again and couldn't find the little hamburger place on the beach that was supposed to be open, so we ate on the boat.
The bareboat next to us had in-the-mast furling which was whistling in the north wind. We were waiting for the wind to shift around to the south so we would be comfortable cross the Gulf Stream. I said to Bob that if the whistling stopped, we'd know the wind had shifted and we'd be good to go.