We stayed in White Sound another 4 days as there was some
nasty weather coming our way.
Gusts of 30-40 knots were predicated for Friday night. I had the riding
sail out and our 40 lb kellet on the anchor chain to do everything I could to
ease the load on the anchor. About 7 PM the lightning show started, it was
quite impressive; of course we would have been much more impressed if we
weren’t sitting on the water only a few feet from a large lightning rod!!!
Fortunately most of it went from west to east and was just to the north of us.
That didn’t stop the gusts of high winds from coming – up to 36 knots then
steady for the rest of the night at about 25-30 knots. For a short period of
time I put the engine in gear to ease some of the load on the anchor. We took
some shifts watching things and keeping an eye on other boats but unlike the
other day nobody seemed to break free.
Besides the storms, it has been fairly quiet here and we see
a window (April 1st eek!) to go back across to Florida although it
looks like it will be a motoring crossing. We left this morning and went 5 NM
to Manjack Cay to get ready for tomorrow morning.
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