Heading to the Abacos

Wonderful Wonderful! We have winds to push us back through Eleuthera toward the Abacos. Lightly reefed we cross to Cape Eleuthera and back to Governors Harbor, where all four boats grab a mooring ball.  We have good times at the pool, the restaurant at French Leave Marina, and biking to the beach.

This trip, we decided to go through the notorious Current Cut to stop at Royal Island on our way to an overnight stop at Royal Island. We thought we had figured out the tides, turns out we were wrong. Current Cut has its own tide, which is connected to nothing else. Instead of motoring through at slack tide, we shot through the cut at 11.5 knots. The outpouring current lifted us and spit us out on the other side. Going north from from the Eleuthera Banks toward Royal Island, this worked quite well. Don't ever try the reverse. If you are entering the Eleuthera Banks from north to south, on a flood tide, your speed will shoot the sailboat along at a velocity which make the hard right turn at the end of the passage impossible to negotiate. Boats would be most likely to slide sideways into the reef while trying to turn.

At Royal Island, we ran into a friend from Dataw, who has taken some time off from working on boats at our marina to cruise with his family. We left early the next morning, Beautiful winds pushed us on a beam reach all the way to Little Harbor in the Abacos. Five boats made the run that day, a beautiful sight on the water.

We spent a night at a rocky anchorage , just outside Little Harbor and visited Pete"s Pub by dinghy, where we ate at the bar and visited the wonderful museum and gift shop which sells beautiful metal artwork.

The neext day, we moved on to Tilloo Cay, a nice sheltered spot,  with 8 feet of water, between Tilloo Cay and Lubbers Quarters, sampling lucheon high on the deck at Cracker P's on Lubbers Quarter. From there you can see the beautiful Tahiti Beach and gorgeous homes on the islands below.