Hi all: Finally got some internet while in Nassau at the marina as my daughter, Brandy, and her boyfriend, Brock, arrive tomorrow and 1 week later our daughter, Kara and her boyfriend, Matt, arrive and we have 9 or 10 days to catch some fish, lobster and a few rays before everyone heads back to work and snow and what not. Sorry I'm not using proper writing and installing paragraphs when I should be as it seems to put about 10 lines between each one but read on anyway. Pictures above are a great sunset from Rose Island, Paul and Shannon after they finally arrived and the first one is a great little O'Day sailboat against a ritzy looking property in Nassau harbour that sank one morning while the guy in the sailboat behind it just watched on and did nothing. It was a little rolly and the bow of the little boat was slamming back into the waves and must have knocked a hose off of a through hull fitting or something. As we made our way through the anchorage to the marina today I noticed it was afloat once again but probably a little smelly inside. Traci and I haven't been doing much, just hanging out at Rose Island enoying the sun while watching it rain in Nassau 7 miles away, a little snorkelling and some crazy eights and Paul and Shannon made it and anchored at Rose as well so we had dinner with them and their son Ben and his wife, Sam and a couple of their friends who are here visiting. We were having fun and chatting when it suddenly started to rain and we had to jump in the dingy and get to our own boat as the hatches and ports were all wide open. Our bed got soaked and had to be stripped and dried out and so for a few nights we had to use the sleeping bag as a bottom sheet. We've found that the 2 solar panels we added to the roof in combination with the other 6 that were all ready on the boat still don't give us enough power to run the fridge and freezer all day and we find that we have to run the little 2 stroke generator that we refer to as "old stinky" about 3 or 4 hours a day to run a charger and fill up the battery bank so it looks as though we're shopping for a wind generator when we return. I added a few more photos, the Coyaba crew in their dingy coming over for a visit, the fresh lobster tail Traci and i ate last night and the Liberty Clipper sailing vessel against a stormy backround. Bye for now and will update as soon as we can.
Dave and Traci
