Ragged Islands

After a long day of sailing 80 miles yesterday, we are now at Hog Cay in the Ragged Islands. In order to allow arrival by sunset, we were up at 3:15 and underway by 4:00. We had a brisk sail in the deep water on the east side of the Jumentos and Ragged Island chains. The wind was a few knots more than we expected and the seas were reminiscent of some of our offshore passages. When were arrived—tired, hungry, and ready for a break—we couldn’t get the sail to roll into the boom. It became jammed in the track on the mast. We eventually dropped it onto the deck and anchored. Then we used dish soap to get it out of the track, and then rolled it into the boom. We will investigate why it became jammed on our next calm day. 

Today we cleaned the cabin, then spent the rest of the day relaxing. Next up, meeting other cruisers at the tiki hut. 

                                                    Nurse Channel Cay as we sailed through Nurse Channel.