Day 2. Woke up at Cooper Island beach club. Cool little hotel resort, nice restaurant.
Combination of wave curl around point and wind backwinding made it just wobbly and bouncy enough to be noticeable. Not uncomfortable but just always there. Slept pretty good not great.
Nice breakfast on the boat, and prepare to go into harm’s way. We pull out of mooring field and motor upwind. Wind 15-18 ish. Took about 10 minutes to get main up because I’ve never used lazy jacks and they’re catching battens. They’re both really convenient, and a really awkward device. Main up, single reef (single line reefing is the cat’s pajamas), bear off to about 60degrees off the wind and unfurl the jib…
8.3 kts. Were trucking. I thought we were going to have to tack 3 -5 times but nope. Autohelm on, 11 year old steers with autohelm controller and I adjust sails and we hauled the mail. 7-8.8 the whole way, upwind/close reach.
1 tack when we got past mosquito island, wave at Richard Brandon’s nice ass island, and we’re in.
Pull up to Bitter End yacht club 17 year old DJ playing 4th of July playlist - gimme a drink.
That was an Extremely rewarding sail. No bullshit flapping, nothing broke, no lines in the water. Just me and my family doing something together.
Now I’m Sitting on mooring watching 4ft tarpon roll behind the boat in our blue underwater lights, from the comfort of our air conditioned cabin.
So far we’ve used about 40% of our water and 60% of our liquor.
thinking about breakfast at BEYC and then Anegada for tomorrow.