Cambridge Cay to Staniel Cay

Yesterday was another stay-on-the-boat day. The front came through and brought a lot of wind. A boat joined us in the mooring field at 11 pm. It appeared to be a man traveling alone. Pretty gutsy move to come into a dark mooring field at night and pick up a mooring while alone on the boat. Also, the entrance to Cambridge Cay can be tricky even in the daylight. Later yesterday morning two other boats joined us. Since it was so windy and choppy we didn’t venture out to meet our new neighbors. It was cloudy all day and our battery levels were dropping so George ran the Honda generator. While he did that I worked on a new cup holder that we installed at the helm. I made it out of Phifertex and used the HH-66 vinyl glue to put it together. We put strips of 3M Dual Lock (otherwise known as super duper Velcro on Breeze On) to hold it onto the boat. It worked very well when we used it during our fast sail from Cambridge Cay to Staniel Cay this morning. 

After anchoring at Staniel Cay we dinghied to shore to run errands. George picked up the replacement part for the Rain Man at Watermakers office in the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. This is the fourth time we have used Watermakers to have something sent to us and we are always pleased with the ease and speed. Rain Man has upgraded the replacement part from plastic to stainless steel. I am guessing we aren’t the only ones to have had a problem. While George picked up the part I dropped off the trash. Staniel Cay Yacht Club charges cruisers to dump their trash but we don’t mind. Next, George bought a jerry can of gas and then we ate a nice lunch at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club. Finally, we walked to both the pink and blue grocery stores to look for fresh vegetables. Our timing much be off because we didn’t find much. I did buy a small cucumber for $5.00. Ouch. 

We returned to Breeze On and moved over to the anchorage at Big Majors. George is running the water maker now and it seems to be working well. As he was setting it up we were visited by a rather large shark!