Junkanoo

Captain’s Log – Fri 5/2/25

Super slow start this morning after a couple late nights and a 6:30am Webex conference with our meteorology service. Sadly it’s time to plan our return to Florida. There are thunderstorms predicted for Sunday and Monday in South Florida extending to the Northern Bahamas so the meteorologist recommended we stay a couple extra days in Nassau, delaying our departure until Tuesday morning. We are stuck on Paradise Island for two extra days, just terrible huh?

I did the route planning after breakfast. Plan is to sail to Chub Cay Tuesday. Then Wednesday anchor on the bank at Mackie Shoals if it’s calm enough. Move on to Riding Rocks far enough south of Bimini Thursday to allow us to get a northern push from the Gulf Stream to Angel Fish Creek in the Keys on Friday. If we’re making great time on Wednesday or it’s too rough to anchor at Mackie Shoals, we’ll continue on to Riding Rocks on Wednesday then cross to the keys on Thursday. Loaded everything to the chart plotter, we have a plan.

I put 4.5 gallons of diesel in the tank to top it off. The dockhand volunteered to go get it refilled for me, saving me the trouble. There’s no fuel on Paradise Island, it’s all on the mainland. That earned him a good tip. Filled our water tanks and washed the boat down.

We spent the afternoon at the harbor side pool, enjoying a quiet relaxing afternoon.

Tonight we had an early dinner at Nobu, a somewhat notable Japanese fusion restaurant. The only reservation we could get was at 5:30. It was quite an experience, probably the best sushi I’ve ever had. We were there a couple hours eating various dishes. I tried the Nobu Black Label saki and the Nobu Cabernet, both very nice wines.