We've come from George Town. Rigalio, Gusto Del Mar and Zenith, are parties to plan, Friday, March 5, at 06:15 hours. The mainsail is mounted at the outset. Arriving by sea, the sail is held. Fini le bruit des moteurs pour les 30 mn suivants. Belle navigation sous voile, le capitaine est bien content du comportement de Zenith. Mais, autant on a eu du vent, 18 à 22 nds, autant il n’y a plus eu de vent pour les 12 derniers mn, fini le calme, un moteur est mis en marche accompagné du génois pour finir la navigation. Nous ancrons sur le côté est de Conception Island à 14 :15 heures. Deux autres bateaux québécois nous rejoignent : Salut Mer Sea et Xtase 1 .
Conception Island est un parc protégé. Il n’y a aucune habitation sur l’île. Par contre la pêche est permise et semble être un des meilleurs endroits pour pêcher la langouste. En fin de journée, Luc Wed Sea of Hi went to check the seabed and back with 2 huge lobsters, one 5 lbs and the other 6 lbs. That bodes well! Despite the wind and cold the next morning, our men go fishing. I thought snorkel but windy and too cold. Gus takes a lobster to 5 lbs but the others do not. They resumed in the afternoon and Richard takes a 6 lbs. But our men have had a hard time to warm up, it took some rum ... Finally is the wetting roller the next day we crossed the west side is much calmer and there are new corals to explore. And yes, our fishermen do not get discouraged not, they return but return empty-handed and frozen. We now call the island,''''Deception Island.
Monday, March 8, International Women's Day (nothing changed in my life) we left our mooring at 06: 15 am to go to Cat Island. We did 43 minutes with 35 minutes under full sail. Fair winds of 15-18 knots NNE, crosswind to 09 hours but the increasing wind 20-22 knots, a reef is taken in the mainsail. We anchor in the bay of New Bight Cat Island at 2:00 pm. We sail with Rigalio and Xtase 1. Gusto Del Mar yesterday left for another island and going to Sea Wed Hi Rum Cay. It's like ça en navigation, nous faisons de belles rencontres pour un temps et ensuite, nous espérons que nos routes vont se recroiser. Le lendemain matin, comme nous voulons partir en fin d’avant-midi pour Little San Salvador, nous débarquons à terre à 8:30 heures pour aller visiter. Nous prenons le sentier pour monter le plus haut sommet des Bahamas, COMO HILL 206 pieds. Au sommet, le frère Jérôme a construit un mini-château-chapelle qui a été surnommé ‘’L’Hermitage’’. Construit en 1939, tout est bien conservé. Le sentier est doté d’un chemin de croix sculpté. Très intéressant à visiter et la vue du sommet est superbe. Nous revenons à our boats and weighed anchor at 11 hours to get to our next anchorage at Little San Salvador, to 18:00 hours, after 36 min, unfortunately motor, wind n'adonnant not.
wake up, casting a glance outside, we discover our beautiful fountain, which we had enjoyed the day. A perfect beach, a water with indescribable colors and a sun that brought us heat for the day without forgetting the huge ship which started to pour out its share of tourists at 8:30 pm. We anchored on the beachfront private company Norwegian Cruise. The place is called Half Moon Cay. People arrive to enjoy the beach and facilities available, with hundreds of chairs, Hobby Cat, kayack, huge water trampolines, water slides etc.. but given the age of passengers that we have seen, none of its installation are hardly used, except the chairs, the buffet restaurant and shops, then there are people ... like we were in the middle of age, we also have to enjoy undisturbed. The ladies were happy, no dinner to prepare and above all it was pretty good and comfortable chairs ... But the next morning he took from Rock Sound to the south of the island of Eleuthera because there is a cold front to announce on Saturday.
Leaving this beautiful beach at 6:15 am arriving at the anchorage of Rock Sound Harbour 14:30. The sail is hoisted with a laugh in the beginning because the ESE winds are about 18-20 knots. For 16 minutes, waves of 6-7 feet, wind on starboard buttock. Speed 6-8 knots, it was rolling! Once past the tip of the island of Eleuthera, we had a tailwind, it became much more''smooth''mais 10 o'clock the wind fell, it ranged between 7 and 12 knots. We are still sailing remained until noon, until Davis Channel, change of direction that gave us the wind in the nose. Compel to leave the engine to finish the final 10 minutes of browsing.
winds arrived earlier than expected. Since yesterday evening, it remains between 20 and 30 knots are SE but will veer WNW. Sound like Rock is a huge bay, we will change this afternoon anchor for better protection. We must stay here until Tuesday. No good weather before.
According to the weather that we hear on Radio Canada, it really Spring in Quebec. So good spring to you all ... and the next ...
PS For photos below, as I'm late, there are pictures of February is Chub Cay, Normans Cay, Lee Stocking etc.. More photos will follow soon ...
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