Thursday, May 24, 2007

Georgetown
Great Exuma Island,
Bahamas
23.30.409N
75.45.770W



At least the day dawned brightly for a change. Although the sun was out, the wind continued to howl and the forecast isn’t changing for the foreseeable future. We had 20+ kts steadily with gusts up to 27/28 kts. The seas continue to increase inside the anchorage but are still about 2.5’.

Dale is starting to go stir crazy. He tries to read, play games on the computer and do CME classes. We even started watching movies in the middle of the day. Apparently other people are getting a bit boat-bound too. We watched a rather small sail boat hoist a full set of sails, then sail back and forth about 6 times along volley ball beach on the opposite side of us. After about an hour, listing dramatically in both directions, they dropped their sails and headed back to drop their anchor. Looks like a couple of vacationers decided they were going to sail regardless of the weather.

Since we have internet, I was able to “chat” with both Orpailleur and Annabelle 2 at the same time via Skype. Orpailleur is killing time in Panama waiting for the signal for them to join the convoy to cross the canal and Annabelle 2 is pinned down by the same weather conditions as us in Green Turtle, Abacos.

I also spent a couple of hours looking at real estate listings and played with mortgage calculators on the internet. Might as well do a little research while we’re sitting here waiting.

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