Rock Sound
After Governor’s Harbor, we headed to Rock Sound, our last Eleutheran port. From there, we would make the jump to the Exumas. This harbor has a reputation as an up and coming cruising destination,with many services and excellent provisioning available.
We set out from Governor’s and had a beautiful sail all the way until we needed to make our turn to Rock Sound. The wind seemed to curl around to accommodate exactly the course we needed. It was sweet! Read more
We arrived in the vicinity of Governor’s Harbor rather late, and decided to anchor to the north at Levy Island while we still had some daylight. We anchored and re-anchored, but could not find good holding. Once we finally seemed to be stuck well, I hustled to get into the water to check our anchor set before it was too dark to see. Turns out, we weren’t really dug in much at all, but were wound between two rocks. We made the decision that we probably weren’t going to do much better in the dark, and decided to keep anchor watches and move in the morning. Cristen and Alex got a taste of some of the uncertainties of cruising. But we had a nice dinner, the anchor held, and we moved into Governor’s Harbor proper in the morning. Another cruiser shared the lat and long of the unbuoyed moorings in the harbor, and intrepid Alex dove down and tied a line to one of them,which we then tied to our boat. We were snug as a bug for the rest of our time there. Read more
Well, we’re still in Marathon – and will be for at least a couple more weeks. We hope to be headed out to the Bahamas by May 1, but we are at the mercy of the mast manufacturer for now!
In the meantime, we have met some wonderful people and done some fun things.
The airshow at the Naval Air Station was a real treat.
I’d never been to one before, and WOW was it fun!
