Working our way home

The winds cleared and we sailed to Great Sail Cay but not before us and 3 other friends and their boats decided to have a race to get there.  We all headed out at 7am with full sails but it wasn’t long before we DQ’ed, our boat is just to slow and could not keep up with everyone, so we turned on the motor and motor sailed the rest of the way.  It was great fun watching all our boats underway, it looked like a armada we were told by other boaters.  After about 4 hours we called the race and the boat Puffin was the winner they had over a mile lead on the field. 

After 7  hours we all arrived at Great Sail Cay and dropped anchor.  The following morning we had a early departure for Old Bahama Bay Marina at West End, Grand Bahama Island as this would be our last stop before we made the jump back to the states. Once at Old Bay Marina we filled the fuel tank, took showers and had a hardy dinner with friends and then early to bed. We were up at 2:00am planning on a 3:00am departure for our 17 hour sail across the northern Golf Steam to Ft Pierce, Fl.   We woke eager to get under way as the goal was to be in Florida and anchored before the sun set.  With a cup of coffee and a granola bar in our hands off we went.  Of course it was still dark but 3 hours later we got to watch the sun rise.

3am

6am

The seas were calm and the wind was hard to find so we filled the time with fishing.  Once again all we caught was a darn barracuda.  

After a very very long day we finally arrived at the Ft Pierce inlet.  We thought we timed it right hoping for slack tide but it still had some out going water which made for a rough entry.  We still hit our goal we dropped the anchor at 7:30pm in the ICW.

We woke up in the morning and signed into US Customs using the new CPB Roam App to let them know that we returned to the US.  Whoop Whoop we were in the US again!

A little tired and fatigued we both agreed that we should head to Vero Beach City Marina (10 miles away) to rest and figure out what our next plan was going to be for heading back to Charleston