A stubborn skipper attempted to at first, jump across the Gulfstream under sail in light airs. When 6 hours had passed use of the aux diesel resumed and we slowly plodded our way over to the Bahamas. After departing at 2000 on Jan 2 we arrived Jan 4 0230 at Mangrove Cay, a small, very small dot of shelter well across the bank from the Memory Rock waypoint. We arrived to see the light of one or two other vessels who departed before we rose.

For the next couple of months we moved back and forth in the Abacos.

And what was 9 years in planning was complete for now. not the endless journey i had imagined, but a pause.

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