Yesterday I spent another very lazy day.
The highlight for me was spending 2 hours in a hammock outside Corsairs. Lovely.
The Internet we had been using during the morning died about mid afternoon so we walked over the hill back to White Bay and the Soggy Dollar Bar which had WiFi.
We headed back to Corsairs for dinner after sunset. As we were walking along the beach in the moonlight
I noticed a bright ring around the moon. It was very striking.
“Hmmmm, that means a change in the weather and not a good one either.” I thought and sure enough this morning we came on deck to grey lowering skies and heavy rain. It’s been raining all morning and is still coming down as I write this during the lunch hour. Lots of line slacking to do as the manila ropes shrink when they get wet. The longer the line the more it shrinks so lines like the Royal bunt lines, buntleaches and the braces need to be checked frequently. The lines can shrink enough to actually part or break bits of the gear so slacking lines is a regular rainy day chore.
More later…
Spent most of the day in the hold sorting old lines and lashing things down in preparation for our passage
to Bermuda.
The rain finally stopped around 3:30 and a watery sun came out just before sunset. There was quite a
lightening display off to the South where the thunderstorms along the weather front have shoved their tops
up over the horizon.
My anchor watch is at 4:00am so hopefully it won’t be raining again.
Tomorrow we will be moving to the island of Sandy Cay which is just offshore of Jost van Dyke and will
be our last Caribbean stop. the plan is to have a beach party ending to our time here before heading back
out into the Atlantic for Bermuda.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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