Glorious Day of Sailing

We left Spanish Wells this morning to slowly sail to Current Cut, timing our arrival at the cut for 1.5 hours after Nassau high tide. That would put us going through the cut close to slack flood tide. Any earlier and we would have too much current going with us making it difficult to control the boat. A few hours later and we would have current going against us. We had almost 2 knots of current with us so we were still a bit early but made it through without any problems. After going through the cut we put up our sails and had the most glorious sail to the west coast of Eleuthera. It was a great treat after all of the motoring we have done over the past few weeks. We are anchored at Rainbow Cay and plan to sail further down the coast to Governor’s Harbour tomorrow. Speaking of the word “Cay,” we saw a clever name on a sign while walking this morning. The sign said “Cay Witness Charters.” In the US the word Cay is usually pronounced as Kay. Here in the Bahamas it is pronounced as Key. Cay Witness Charters gets the Gardner seal of approval for clever names. 

George started up the water maker after we dropped the anchor. He will run it for about an hour and a half to make 20 gallons of water and fill the tank. 

We saw our first green flash of the season with tonight’s sunset. 

Screenshot from a video I took while sailing. 

My apologies for the poor photo. I was standing in the street and had to take the photo quickly before a car drove by. 

This is the motor for the water maker. It runs on gas. The column is a pre-filter and the white reinforced hose draws saltwater in. The black hose takes the water up to the reverse osmosis columns. 

The reverse osmosis columns are inside the box. The white hose takes fresh water to the water tank.