About 10:30 we weighed anchor to do 5 miles to Staniel Cay. The winds were strong from the south and the bay had many shallow and deep area and with the winds I wanted a Goldilock anchorage.
Ronald from Subduction was anchored and trying to guide us to a good anchorage somewhat beside him. It was a great anchorage.
I dinghy Natalia to Staniel YC where we had our goodbyes and she left for the Airport.
I walked around town and bought some fresh vegetables, butter and a dozen eggs. $39. Walked about 6 km.
Had a BBQ pork chop at an outside stand. For $18 there was food for 2-3 meals.
I came back to the boat and chatted with Ronald and his boat was a project boat without a motor. He was anchored too close to the channel and was at the mercy of the current. I was going to help him at slack tide.
Ronald had successfully moved the boat and canoed by at 16:40 to say the current subsided and he successfully moved the boat by himself.
Captain Ron is a young German captain who has a 32 foot project sail boat single handed without an engine. He originally sailed a 27 foot boat from Europe to Mexico where it got stolen at gun point. He quite this 32 project boat and sailed from Mexico lost his mast, limped to Cuba, then to Florida then the Abacos and now in the Exumas. All without motor. He has canoe for a dinghy. He uses Open Captain for chart plotter but his GPS is now not working - probably corrosion on the USB connection. He has paper charts. This young man’s got big ambitions. Now Bellum looks like a super yacht.
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