Georgetown #2 2017
Lisa was gone home to the funeral
of her cousin and good friend Fred Klescht from March 5 until March 12. While she was gone I spent the first five
days aboard trying to get a few boat projects done and making sure the boat
stayed put on her anchor. She never drug
the anchor even though a couple of times during this 5 day blow the wind was
well over 40 knots (50 mph) and never below 20.
George Town (Elizabeth Harbor is open to the Northwest and the
South). It is 2 miles across – so if you
are anchored on the wrong side during a blow, there is 2 miles of fetch (open
water). If the wind is out of the South
of Northwest, there are very few places to hide. With the wind at 30+ knots a lot of the time,
it is a very rough place to be anchored.
It is dangerous in these conditions to try to get off the boat and onto
the dinghy. I did manage to go “next
door” to At Last one evening during a
lull for drinks and appetizers with Majestic
Phoenix. Cabin fever is bad enough,
but when the cabin is rocking and rolling, it is even less fun.
Even though the wind is still east
at over 20 knots, 57 boats left for the Long Island Rally. They will spend 4 days participating in
various tours, dinners and sunset cocktail hours on Long Island (about 40 miles
east of George Town). At Last and Majestic Phoenix were part of the 57 boats who left.
By Friday, the winds had finally
calmed. 17 additional boats left for
Long Island today. Doug on Melinda Kay
is also boat sitting while his wife, Barb, has gone to Miami to watch The World
Baseball Classic with their sun. Doug
and I went into George Town to do errands and had a late lunch at “The Two
Turtles”. Nice change to the routing of
the past few days. I dropped off the
laundry. The Bahamian Music and Heritage Festival is going on in George Town
this week-end – music, food, arts, crafts, etc. For more information click on
this link
On Saturday, I cleaned the boat,
including the stern, which get sooty from the diesel exhaust of the engine and
the generator. Doug and I went over to Chat and Chill and had a burger and a
beer and watched the sunset.
On Sunday, I took a cab out to the
airport to meet Lisa’s flight. While
many of the flights are international, the airport is not large. Very busy.
There is a small terminal building and a smaller customs and immigration
building. While I was there, 3 pretty
good sized airliners came in (Delta, American and Air Canada). It took quite a while to process all the
incoming passengers. This happens 3
other times during the day, plus there are flights coming and going to other
parts of the Bahamas. The restaurant and
shops are across the street. A relaxed
facility (it’s the Bahamas).
Lisa’s flight came in on time at
2:00 pm, and it was after 3:00 pm when she finally made it out the door. It was 4 by the time we made it back to the
boat. It was nice that the harbor was
relatively calm for her return dinghy ride across the harbor to Rhiannon. Dinner on board. Lisa left the house in New Hampshire for the
airport at 3 am this morning, so an early night to bed.
Monday, March 13, 2017. We
spent the day saying our good-byes to people we met here. Lisa went for a long walk with Connie, Rodger
and Bosun on Down Time and got Rhiannon
ready to depart tomorrow morning to start the trek back toward the north.
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