City of lights, Part II

In the previous blog, I described our race experience as we swept the Georgetown Regatta and we were named boat of the year!

But truth be told our sailing was far from the most impressive boat handling I saw this past week. Our friends on S/V Jasaru had been changing anchorages in Elizabeth harbor when all of the sudden their transmission seized, engine temps went through the roof and they unexpectedly found themselves adrift without an engine!!! Justin and Sherry being well salted sailors were quick to act after a moment of shock, quickly getting there sails up. Now they had their 53′ Pearson cruising along, tacking left and right to make it up the tight channel and avoiding running aground!

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City of Lights part 1

It’s a short sail from Calabash bay in Long Island to Georgetown, Exumas so with a strong wind blowing we slept in, made a wonderful lobster breakfast and headed out around midday. Clipping along at a nice 6-7 kts we were still being passed by the bigger buddy boats we were with but enjoying the sail nonetheless with two fishing lines in the water. Nothing doing on the 25 mile journey though so we pulled in the lines as we neared the entrance to Elizabeth Harbour in Georgetown.

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Long Island, not the New York one

Whoa, what happened there!?! We we’re nicely blogging along once a week and then, BAM, 5 weeks passed! Many apologies for the long absence, we’ve got our dog ate our homework excuse all ready though… We’ve had no internet! oye, I forgot a world could exist without internet for so long. We’ve been in very remote part of the Bahamas, Cuba (where they had internet but very limited) and have now just arrived in Panama after a long passage so there are plenty of stories backlogged to tell you all. We’ll try to keep the posts coming fast and furious now that we’re back connected to the world, for now enjoy Alyssa’s rendition of our Long Island escapades and we’ll have you all caught up on our adventures in no time, Thanks for your patience!!

Last we left off we had just stumbled upon some young cruisers at Rum Cay when Adam had pulled up to the wrong boat at night…

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