Georgetown
Great Exuma Island,
Bahamas
23.30.409N
75.45.770W


Just when we thought the winds were dying down, they pipe back up and we have white caps in the harbor again. We weren’t going anywhere today in any event because we wanted to watch Orpailleur make their transit through the Panama Canal.

Dale and I took turns watching the webcams all day waiting for them to pass by. All we saw were the big boys, tankers and freighters. Then about 5 pm we got a call via Skype; Nicky is on the line wanting to know if we saw them waving as they passed through. They had completed their transit 2 hours before. We can’t figure out how we missed them. Except for the times when we had to reboot the computer when it seemed to lock up, we sat here the entire day watching the stupid thing. In hind sight, I kick myself for watching the bridge camera instead of the lock camera because they would have sat longer in the locks and we might have had a better chance of seeing them there instead of trying to catch them as they passed by the bridge.

Oh well, we had a nice chat with both of them. They said that the transit was painless and except for the fact that their line handlers ate them out of house and home, they were very professional and did and great job.

As for our journey, Dale and I figure that we’ll be able to start making some northward progress starting Tuesday when the seas in the Sound are supposed to drop below the 6’ height and the cuts from the Sound onto the Bank will be more navigable. Of course, we’ll listen to the weather tomorrow and before we take off to verify our observations just to be sure.