Sailing to West Bay, New Providence Island

What a great sail. We left Bimini around noon, got out of the channel there and struck up some sails. Boy, did that ever feel good! All day was perfect. Into the darkness the wind angle got a little rough for Ozzie the autopilot to handle so we were hand driving basically the whole time.

Ernie off watch. Look closely by his left elbow; that's Minnie tucked into the lee cloth as well.

Maybe 4 hours of that time were pretty trying, in order to keep the boat from swaying. We managed that with very short watches (1 hour). Great for the driver, not so great for the off-watch crew (too short for good sleep). As it got better, we lengthened out the watches and we were back into a normal routine and having a relaxed run over to West Bay the rest of the night and morning. Sails taken down just outside of the inlet here. How cool.

And this is a beautiful bay. Just lovely and peaceful.