After one more night in Black Point we plan to leave tomorrow morning and start heading for the Ragged Islands. The trip is over 100 miles and we plan to break it up into three day trips. The Ragged Islands will be as far south as we plan to go in the Bahamas. Yesterday we took a brief trip back to Staniel Cay to top off our diesel and gasoline. The last time we visited the Ragged Isalnds we started rationing our trips in the dinghy to make sure we didn’t run out of gasoline before we returned to a place where we could buy gas. While we were at Staniel we saw our friends Jean and Michael from Desiderata II. Later on we had them over for sundowners and had a lot of fun catching up. We have been just barely missing each other for months. Today the four of us went for a late lunch at Scorpio’s. This morning George and I worked on a method that will allow us to raise the dinghy while the motor is still attached. The transom on our dinghy is not very strong and we don’t want to risk damaging it, especially in the Bahamas where we depend on it. We decided to try tying the motor to the arm of the arch to take the weight of the motor off the transom. We will do this when we raise the dinghy while at anchor but continue to remove the motor when we are under way. 
The sun reflecting on the sand 10 feet below was so beautiful.
It will be a lot simpler to raise the dinghy if we don’t have to first remove the motor. We are hoping that tying it to the arm of the arch will take enough weight off to protect the transom.
The supply boat was in when we returned to our dinghies after lunch at Scorpio’s today.
The sun reflecting on the sand 10 feet below was so beautiful.
It will be a lot simpler to raise the dinghy if we don’t have to first remove the motor. We are hoping that tying it to the arm of the arch will take enough weight off to protect the transom.
The supply boat was in when we returned to our dinghies after lunch at Scorpio’s today.
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