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Marina at Emerald Bay

We left our anchorage a few hours before high tide and meandered through the deepest parts of the shallow water to make our way to Adderly Cut. I used George's Garmin Blue Charts on his iPad to navigate and ignored the Navionics charts on Breeze On's chart plotter. Garmin is much more accurate than Navionics in the Bahamas. The most accurate are the Explorer Charts paper charts. Garmin apparently uses Explorer Charts for their electronic charts in the Bahamas. We have all of the Explorer Charts and they have been very useful for navigation and as cruising guides.
After going through Adderly Cut out into Exuma Sound we turned south toward Emerald Bay. The winds were light and the seas were calm. We had assumed there wouldn't be enough wind to sail, but we were wrong. We sailed a nice, calm beam reach in winds around 10 knots. We haven't had conditions like that since we left the Abacos almost 2 months ago. We pulled into The Marina at Emerald Bay and into our slip. We haven't had Breeze On in a slip for almost 2 months, either. My first order of business was laundry. Emerald Bay has 4 each heavy duty washers and dryers and they are free! And the laundry room is open 24 hours. They also have free wifi and it seems to work better than most of the wifi we have seen in the Bahamas. After dinner it was time for long, hot showers. Ahhhhh.

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