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 areas 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 dinghied 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 sailboat single-handed without an engine. He originally sailed a 27-foot boat from Europe to Mexico where it got stolen at gunpoint. He had quite a 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 a motor. He had a 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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