Stopover at West End
Cruising out of Treasure Cay, we took Don’t Rock passage for the first time. It was great! We left at high tide so that we’d have plenty of water and our Explorer Charts guided us right through.
We anchored at Great Sale Cay with several other trawlers overnight. On Tuesday we headed for West End. It was pretty rolly getting into the Old Bahama Bay marina but it was good to be at the dock for what was to come. A huge thunderstorm pelted West End for hours, starting almost as soon as we got docked and continuing until after sundown. The Dinghy Admiral rejoiced because this meant less boat cleaning the next day!
Now we are doing the “trawler sit and wait for a weather window” here with (again) several other crusing boats. Weather permitting, we’ll jump across the Gulf Stream this week sometime.
The Captain closing in on the Don't Rock
Do you have any idea how hard it is to take a picture of yourself in front of a rock?
The captain poised to swat a fly - no stowaways (of any species) on Seadee! Lord of the Flies?
Speaking of weather, West End boasts its very own NOAA Weather Station. You can visit it online here and you can see a picture of it below.
There it is: the NOAA West End Weather Station
...and a super-geeky close-up of the weather station's satellite antenna (the one with all the x's)
Still in Jackson Creek
The weather has been against me. Rain, wind and nasty seas. Sill anchored in Jackson Creek. I’m trying to get to Norfolk to pick up Jim and Larry Saturday. The waves have been so bad that a boat capsized two miles from here. 3 people had to be pulled from the water by the Coast Guard. I need a weather window of about 7 hours to get out of the Chesapeake and into the protected waters of Norfolk. Just heard from Brook and Dee (East Passage) who are also waiting to go south. They are about 3 hours north of me in Urbanna.
Merritt Island Weather
