I come out to the Exumas Sound via Farmer Cut at 8am. Winds were abeam so pulled out the jib and sailed for about 4 hours and an hour and half of Motoring. I came back in through Rat cay cut and anchor off Boysie Cay, just south of Rat Cay.
It was a beautiful anchorage with a beach and I was the only boat around. I was going to change
My impeller but the beach was so nice,
I decided to dingy to the beach and washed. On the way back, the tilt mechanism broke. A nut holding the pivot arm sheared off. According to Norm, it happened before. Fortunately it was not critical and I was able to dinghy back. It would not have been a nice experience to paddle back. And nobody was around.
I got back to Bellum and decided not to risk changing the impeller since I was so isolated that if something broke I would be completely alone. I chatted with Chris and Norm and it was 5pm so I popped a beer.
The sunset was amazing.
Supper was pork tenderloin on the grille
The next morning was so nice I decided to spend the day here instead of rushing to Georgetown where I would stay until Norm arrival in 17 days. The only reason to rush was the weekend would be windy and Georgetown would be much better protected
I took it easy in the morning and in the afternoon I changed the impeller which apparently had 1100 hours on it I tightened the shaft packing again.
A Hunter with a Canadian flag came into my harbour but left after a couple hours
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