Lynyard Cay to Royal Island
Hakuna Matata was
underway by 0650 and headed toward the first waypoint. Others in the anchorage were beginning to
prepare to get underway. The journey
south was beginning. Conditions for
negotiating the Little Harbour Cut could not have been much better as there was
a breeze of at best 5 knots, the tide was changing from ebb to flood and the
long period swells were perhaps 5 feet with no waves. It was a no stress passage through the narrow
gap between the rocks and reefs with the sun rising on the horizon. It was a beautiful morning.
Once we
turned south, the swells were on our port quarter pushing us along for the next
50 miles. We were making good time
running between 6.5 and 7 knots in very calm conditions but no wind in our
favor. We could see several other
south-bound boats traveling with us. By about 10 AM we began meeting
north-bounders who traveled through the night headed for the Abacos. No one was sailing as there was little to no
wind.
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| Schooner off Egg Island |
We put out
our fishing lines hoping to catch some dinner.
We used some large artificial fish lures which looked promising. We didn’t get a strike for over 8 hours of
trolling. Then, just off Egg Island,
Carla noticed one of our poles bent and line rapidly spinning out. Dwayne sprung from the wheel to the pole. But
before he could tighten the drag, the line ran out and broke free from the reel
with a quick snap. Whatever took that
bait was big and moving fast. No fish
for us tonight.
We came
across a schooner as we rounded Egg and Little Egg Cays. She most likely was a charter or excursion
boat out of Spanish Wells. She made a
loop around an area which the charts show as being a deep reef with a sunken
vessel. The water is so clear, you can see
to the bottom 30 feet below. It is
mostly bright white sand with some green grassy patches.
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