Long Island

Time to escape George Town. Still fairly rough, so I put on my bathing suit and make one last water run into town.

Garbage in back, cash in window

Antares, a Vermont boat

Antares (Leonard and Lynnea Rosner) from Lake Champlain, VT, LCYC members who we last saw at Fernandina, Florida early in December. We did not get a chance to stop by to visit, but did talk with them on the radio. They said there was a third Vermont boat in the anchorage, but I missed the name.  


Long Island got hit hard by Hurricane Joaquin and potable water is in short supply and expensive. “Sea Vu Play” leaves before us. We have very good wind and sail all the way to Long Island under reefed sails. Sea Vu Play gets to Thompson Bay way ahead of us. They out distance us and we loose sight of them half way to Long Island about 40 miles from George Town. The normal cruiser happy hour on Sunday at Thompson Bay does not happen, so we have our own happy hour on our boat, with Mark & Karen.

Mark & Karen spent almost two weeks here and know a number of cruisers and locals here. Mark did a lot of volunteer work on One couple Bruce & Gayle “Aquarelle”, who we all met at Bimini and Great Harbor, have a small home they had built here. They spend six months or so here in the winter and spring. Their boat is anchored in Thompson Bay, not far from us.