Nassau to Highborne Cay

We finally were able to leave Nassau on Monday morning. Nassau is a nice stop, we can purchase supplies and cheap designer purses, good rum cheap, jewelry, etc., but we are ready to leave within three or four days. This time it was seven days while waiting for a weather window. All was going well as we left the Nassau harbor, until one engine quit. Bob went down to the port engine room and while working on the engine did something that made the other engine fail, so we were dead in the water at the South entrance to the harbor. Then he leaves me in the pilot house to “watch things” with a parade of boats all anxious to leave the harbor after being Nassau bound for 7 days, unable to do anything but "watch." Bob was able to get the starboard engine working, so we proceeded on toward Highborne Cay. We anchored off Highborne about 3 in the afternoon. As it turns out,Dee and Ed on Sex Fox X were right next to us. They had left the marina in Nassau a couple of days before us to anchor in the harbor. They then had sailed down to Highborne Cay on Sunday. Their trip sailing went well, we would have been miserable in the power cat making the same trip.

Our trip would have been uneventful except for the port engine problem and the fact that we were passed by a fishing boat on our port side and an express cruiser to starboard – leaving us to bubble about in wakes coming from both sides at once. That is always exciting. I had not expected rough water, so I had only done a half-hearted job of securing stuff around the boat. Well, stuff fell out of the refrigerator again, but luckily nothing broke open this time.

Dee and Ed on Sea Fox X had already visited many of the boats here in the anchorage at Highborne Cay and invited them to come to the beach for happy hour at 4. Bob fiddled with the boat for awhile and determined that he needed happy hour more than he needed to fix the engine, so we dropped the dinghy and went to the beach to meet up with several of the other boaters. Some had arrived yesterday – like Sea Fox X, and others like us had come in today. We spend a nice couple of hours getting to know some of the folks that are anchored here with us. Many were French Canadians, but several were American and non-French Canadians. One man had been docked very close to us in Nassau, but had been at a different marina, so we had not had a chance to really meet him.


Sea Fox X at anchor


Ed caught a Grouper, but had to let it go. Grouper season doesn't start until March 1.
When dark neared, we all headed back to our boats. Several other large mega yachts came in to the anchorage about dark to join this group of strangers, most of which only met tonight. We had dinner and watched TV, listening to the laughter of some of the other boats.

Bob will have to work on the boat tomorrow (Tuesday) – he thinks it is a fuel filter – before we can head on South.


What more can you ask for?