Let's try that again, shall we?
Currently in: Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas
(http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/winlink.cgi?KG4EYP)

This morning, Britt took the outboard back in to the mechanic, who poked and prodded and decided that the pathway for the fuel at idle speed is just going to get gummed up periodically until all the salt is washed out of the system, so Britt learned how to clean it out, which it will need for a while, we guess.  So we're going to take what we can from this weather window and stage back down to Snake Cay for a bleary-eyed early morning start for the long run to Royal Island at the north end of Eleuthera. 

I am in a much better mood right now, which is in part due to the outboard outlook, and in part due to the excellent slice of coconut key lime pie I just ate at this internet bar cafe.  The cruising life is kind of like having bipolar disorder, I think: things are either awesomely excellent or dismal and horrid, with very little middle ground.

Anyway, cross your fingers for an awesomely excellent passage tomorrow.  The plan is two long days, to Royal Island and then to Rock Sound, and then we'll re-evaluate the weather for the next bit of moving south.

- posted by S/V Windom @ 4/19/2007 [link]