Storms

A squall rolled in shortly after I published yesterday’s blog post. We were quite happy that we arrived early and were settled by then. The boat next to us spent an hour in driving rain trying to get their anchor set. I am not sure why they had a problem—since anchoring in Rock Sound is not usually a problem. Just after the sun set last evening a line of strong storms hit. The wind shifted suddenly from SE to W—blowing at close to 40 knots. With the wind on the beam, Breeze On was heeling over.  I took a quick photo before turning the engine on to help get the boat turned into the wind. By the time the engine came on the boat had turned itself. We had rain, wind, and lightning around us for a few hours before the storms finally passed. 

This morning was quite calm before the next strong winds hit this afternoon. We took advantage of the calm conditions to dinghy a mile across the harbor (twice) to get fuel and had the added bonus of being able to get off of the boat. We expect to be boat-bound for the next two days. 

The S wind picked up this afternoon, right on schedule. We had positioned ourselves for protection from an even stronger W wind so the anchorage was quite bouncy until the wind shifted. When the next storm arrived the wind shifted to the W and the anchorage did become less bouncy. We had some heavy rain. It is calm at the moment but we know more wind is coming. 

The line of storms had arrived. You can see that Breeze On was heeling. 





Screenshot from our radar app. All of Eleuthera is obscured by the storm. 

Our three jerry cans of diesel waiting for us to carry them across the street and on the path to the dock this morning while it was calm. 

Watching the storm to our N…

…later on…

…and even later.