At 6:15am we pull up the anchor. We want to arrive at Hawks Net Marina which is off a mangrove creek at slack tide so we do not have to fight a lot of current. We need to arrive around noontime. Leaving Calabash we can pass through a couple narrow openings between some shallow reefs. As we head out our chart plotter freezes and does not display the track I loaded between the reefs. So I turn to our mounted iPad, running our AquaMap chart plotting software. I am running Aquamap on my old iPad. Well that screen also freezes. SOB ! I yell to Linda to hand me my new iPad running Aquamap. It is working fine. I had to go to my 3rd backup. My fault for not making sure everything was running correctly before I took off.
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| Sunrise |
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| Waves breaking on adjacent reef |
Seas are fairly rough since its open ocean between Long Island and Cat. We always have a rough sail between these Islands. Swells are running over 6 feet, but are 10 seconds apart so we are not getting a lot of water splashing over the bow. We motor-sail to ensure our noontime arrival. We get into our slips without any problems, once in the marina basin there is no current and not much wind.
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| Approach entrance to Hawks Nest Marina |
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| They mainly cater to Sport Fishermen |
After we have lunch on the boat we all walk over to the Hawks Net resort, ¼ of a mile away, crossing their runway. We checkout their dinner menu but decide to have dinner on our boats tonight instead and walk over for breakfast in the morning.
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| Hawks Nest Resort |
I make Mango Daiquiris and we play dominoes under the covered pavilion close to our boat.
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