Little Harbor

Captain’s Log – Sat 4/19/20

Today was a bit of an adventure. As we were heading to bed last night we noticed an issue with the sanitation system. It was late, I’d had a few beers and was tired so I left it for this morning. But then I didn’t sleep well knowing that I had a literal shitty job to do before we could move on. I do carry a spare treatment pump but seriously hope it’s never ever necessary to replace.

After plenty of coffee for motivation I started to diagnose what the issue was. Fortunately, and using all the luck for the rest of the trip, it was a simple, no mess fix. Somehow the pump had lost its prime. Pouring some seawater down the pump-out port allowed the pump to prime and start working again. Not broken, Whew!

We set out for Sandy Cay, hoping there would be enough protection there to spend the evening and possibly go diving at the reef there. But we used that bit of luck up earlier. The wind was on the high side of the forecast and the waves were pretty rough as we passed exposed areas between islands. It was a bit much for the admiral. The wind didn’t shift enough to protect the anchorage so it was a no-go. We had to skip Sandy Cay and push on another hour to Little Harbor.

Using up any remaining luck, we arrived exactly at high tide otherwise the entrance to Little Harbor would not have been passable. But wait, there was even a mooring ball available! At this point I thought I should have bought a lottery ticket.

Grabbing the mooring ball in the breezy condition was another story. After failing to grab the mooring ball three times in the 25kt wind, one of the other cruisers came over in his dinghy to pick it up and hand it to us. Cruisers are nice like that, always willing to help each other out. Perhaps some good karma from helping out the Distant Shores II a couple weeks ago.

Then one of the other cruisers came over and told us there was a hog roast at the beach bar, so we headed over there. It was a wild boar, a first for us. Delicious!

We’ll wait here until the weather calms down enough to sail to Eleuthera.

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