We've been in North Palm Beach since friday night - waiting on the needed weather to cross to the Abacos. That weather looks like it is about to be here and we'll probably cross on wednesday - leaving from the inlet anchorage around 3 am or so. It's a 2 day sail to the sea of Abaco, so we should be in the Green Turtle Cay anchorage (probably Black Sound) on thursday night.
When we arrived here on friday night, there were rain squalls and thunderstorms rolling through and we couldn't get the anchor to set on the western side of the anchorage. We drug anchor twice in the darkness and rain, so we had to pull up anchor both times and try to reset. That's no fun in a driving rain. With saturday's daybreak came better weather and we moved to the eastern side of the anchorage where we've had great holding.
Saturday night, Rick and I went to the boat parade as shoreside observers. We watched it from a bar/restuarant called Panama Hatties that's located right on the ICW which was the parade route.
Sunday evening, Jan came down and has hung out with us for 2 nights and will go home today.
It looks like a good crossing forecasted with 15 knot winds out of the south. That's good for sailing at top speed.
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