Stray Cat Sailing: On the Move towards Home

Freddie with my life in his hands. Good thing we had went to feed the pigs and I had fed him supper!

After going into town to connect to internet, top off time on our cell phones and the check the weather forecast we took off to Big Major beside Staniel Cay. Yes pig island again. Trying to sail there was a mess. The wind was only supposed to be blowing 15 but it sure felt like more to me as we wrestled with both the both sails. Lesson learned ALWAYS secure the wind generator when working with the main sail. One of our mainsail reef lines broke a blade on our generator putting it out of commission for the rest of our trip. We continued to have issues with both the main and jib, so much so that we put them away and just motored on to Big Major arriving around 3 pm. Some sailors we are! Neither one of us were in great moods, in fact we were both pretty snippy. The pigs make us happy though, so after setting the anchor we loaded up our moldy bread and took off to feed our favorite swine. Our Bahamian courtesy flag line had chafed through while we were at Black Point and needed to be fixed. With plenty of daylight left and since the wind had died I talked Freddie into hauling me up the mast (I much preferred that to me hauling him up there) to restring it. We had a great dinner of left over steak with butter beans and rice and hit the sack. The next morning we took off to Warderick Wells. This time we just motor sailed with the jib and had a great trip. We picked up a mooring again at the Land and Sea Park where we had stayed on our trip down. After paying for a night we hiked back up to Boo Boo Hill and found our sign we had left in November. They have a nice new memorial bench up there now and we visited with several other cruisers during our hike. We are making short day hops up the chain to be in a position to cross back over and head home. Right now it doesn't look like we can cross for at least another week. Every stop we make we have to make sure we have a secure anchorage close in case of a nasty cold front. Who knows with forecasts that far out. One thing for sure the weather is always changing.