Bob and I took a long walk today down the Queen’s Highway and were transported to England. From the country lanes lined with tidy rock walls, to the telephone and mailboxes, and the decidedly English accent of the people, England is recreated here. Instead of the colorful house signs of Elbow Cay, we found subtle but beautiful bells that visitors ring from the road to announce their presence. We followed the narrow path to spectacular views of the calm ocean and found a picnic shelter positioned between the bay and ocean from which you can view sunrise and sunset.
After a pretty calm and restorative day, we had some excitement. We had contacted Froggies Abaco to clean the hull of our boat. You may remember that Bob cleaned the grass last week but we thought we had better have a pro look at the underside. Much to our surprise, the diver brought up a 15 foot crab pot line that was wrapped around our propeller. We had not experienced any vibration and had not noticed any speed drop as we got the speed boost in the Gulf Stream and when we were traveling the Sea of Abaco we had such wind that we thought that had reduced our speed. Where did we pick it up—it’s a mystery to us but we are glad to be rid of it. Just as Bob was posing for the picture with the crab pot line, another boater came by with an urgent appeal to have our diver come immediately as a trawler in the Eastern Harbour had run over a mooring chain and line, had fouled its prop terribly, was swinging wildly in the 20 knot wind in the harbor and threatened to crash into other moored boats. Divers to the rescue…
Crisis on the water brings everyone out and we met our neighbors, Philip and Paula on another trawler, “Tramp”, a beautiful Grand Banks 46. Phillip was a naval architect, sailed all over the world, and he and Paula have been coming to the Bahamas on this trawler for 10 years but this will their last trip as they take “Tramp” back to Maine. They also did the Loop in 2001 and even journeyed into Lake Superior. We enjoyed spending the evening with them. I was so impressed with their Jack Russell, Rudy, who is so acrobatic and positions himself on the bow of the dinghy and leaps to shore.
After a pretty calm and restorative day, we had some excitement. We had contacted Froggies Abaco to clean the hull of our boat. You may remember that Bob cleaned the grass last week but we thought we had better have a pro look at the underside. Much to our surprise, the diver brought up a 15 foot crab pot line that was wrapped around our propeller. We had not experienced any vibration and had not noticed any speed drop as we got the speed boost in the Gulf Stream and when we were traveling the Sea of Abaco we had such wind that we thought that had reduced our speed. Where did we pick it up—it’s a mystery to us but we are glad to be rid of it. Just as Bob was posing for the picture with the crab pot line, another boater came by with an urgent appeal to have our diver come immediately as a trawler in the Eastern Harbour had run over a mooring chain and line, had fouled its prop terribly, was swinging wildly in the 20 knot wind in the harbor and threatened to crash into other moored boats. Divers to the rescue…
Crisis on the water brings everyone out and we met our neighbors, Philip and Paula on another trawler, “Tramp”, a beautiful Grand Banks 46. Phillip was a naval architect, sailed all over the world, and he and Paula have been coming to the Bahamas on this trawler for 10 years but this will their last trip as they take “Tramp” back to Maine. They also did the Loop in 2001 and even journeyed into Lake Superior. We enjoyed spending the evening with them. I was so impressed with their Jack Russell, Rudy, who is so acrobatic and positions himself on the bow of the dinghy and leaps to shore.
