I'm not getting many questions about the trip here so I'll post a couple I got on the other board as they might be of interest and if that is a problem (moderators) just tell me and I'll stop. So with that in mind here are two that I thought might provide some insight to someone that might want to do this trip.
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Chinook wrote:... I think those parallel lines in the rock near the beach were cuts from a quarrying operation. They use coral rock for construction down there, and it wouldn't surprise me if someone set up a rock saw to cut and split blocks of coral rock, possibly to build that big abandoned house or maybe the big stone wharf down below it. Story I heard was that that British bloke was actually a German sympathizer, and he build the wharf for German U-boats to tie up at. The British actually did sink a U-boat near there, during the War. The Bahamians finally ran the guy off, and his house sits abandoned to this day. ...
The one set were definitely tread marks from Cat or something like it. I think you are right about the squares that were cut into the rock and that it was probably used for building like you said. I pretty much read that same about him being a German sympathizer and think the link I sent probably wanted to downplay that. I passed there yesterday and took another picture from the north.
Coming north from Georgetown 2 days ago was way, way different than the trip going south and no problem at all. The water was fine going in even though I didn't time it quite right. I had to delay departure a day because of weather and that moved the tides up an hour. I wanted to run the cut like before at slack tide and that was going to be about 7 pm. I left at 9 am and was sailing at 2 1/2 to 3 which was a good speed to get me in up there around 6-7. Well then the wind died a little more so I started to motor sail and could easily do 5 with the motor off idle. So now I'm going to get there probably at mid-tide and high current. I thought about maybe going in north of there, but nixed that idea. So thought maybe I could just hang offshore if it looked bad. Well I made good time and was there about 1 hour after high tide so the ebb had started.
I had none of the problems going in as the sound had laid down over the previous 24 hours so nothing like coming out. It was flat and no waves so in I went. No problems as the current wasn't too bad. I dropped from about 5 kts to a little over 2 for maybe 200-300 yards and then started to come out of it and speed increased. Ran up to that Williams Bay anchorage for the night and it was a good day. One should just be patient unless they want 'memories'. Actually speaking of that my memories of the day I went out have for some reason been pretty much erased from my mind now like how some experiences are. I just remember that it was fairly frightening and I hope to not go there again.
I'm at Little Farmers inside a cute little bay inside the larger bay and might hang here until Tues. as there is something that might be big coming according to Chris's weather and have some west wind and my next stop Rocky Point is all open to the west or SW or NW. I was really surprised to find internet here. Only 3 connections and this one was one and is much better than any I had in Georgetown so will try an finish updating the trip report (first part) and also bring it up to-date to here.
This morning I dove on the mermaid and piano the David Copperfield commissioned and is in about 12 feet of water off Rudder Cut Cay. I got some underwater video of it with one of the cheaper cams I bought to use on the race car. I'll post it when I have fast internet. Google it if you haven't heard of it. Pretty neat and I'll bet he spent a lot to have it done. You probably were within 100 yards of it on your way south.
Thanks again for your trip report it has been a big help. I finally did copy all the internet pages to a text file before leaving and glad that I did.
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Ixneigh wrote:Hi Sumner. Enjoying the write up. What is your opinion of exiting rudder cut and sailing out into exuma sound overnight, and hitting the Georgetown entrance about 11 am the next morning? ...Ix
Personally I wouldn't do that as it doesn't take that long. In fact it isn't too hard to time it for slack tide at both, about 6 hours apart. The only problem there is when do those happen during the day you want to go and that will depend on the day you do it. I left coming back on the day I did because the next day the evening slack would of been too close to dark and I would of then been getting into an anchorage too late. I might of then been able to do the run in the morning instead of the afternoon.
It is really nice if you have tides that are running where you could go out about 9-10 in the morning and in at 3-4 in the afternoon going either direction. Also now the days are getting longer so more options. A month ago it would of been harder. As I mentioned above the trip north was easy the other day and yesterday and today I've gone by another couple cuts where I think I could of gotten our pretty easy and no waves on the outside of them. The trick I think is to let the Exuma Sound settle down and don't do it during or right after or the tail end of a lot of big wind days out of the East like what took place when I went south.
I did get to see the racing on the final day I was there and that was neat but otherwise Georgetown didn't do much for me. Most days the dinghy ride in and out wasn't enjoyable and I've really enjoyed some of the remote anchorages much more but that is just me. Lots of people love Georgetown. They said on the morning net that there were over 200 boats there when I arrived and more came for the races and when I left they said it was up to 240 but don't know where they get those numbers. I called the harbormaster and reported in and also did that on the net, but didn't do either when I left as the harbormaster didn't respond and I was busy getting out when the net was going on. Like I said lots of people do like it there and I'm glad that I went but probably don't have to go back
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Sumner
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