Jerry's take on Nassau

            Early in January

We motorsailed to Nassau channel and arrived in rain/light fog and decided to anchor over close to Oprah's house.  We had winds up to 30 kts during the night (Georgetown clocked 105 kts and several boats damaged).  I left the chart plotter on through the night and by morning it looked like Salvidor Dali's ghost painted the screen!  

We went to town in the dinghy walked to the telephone company to buy a bahama chip.  The Tmobile service was fine for texting but for teathering the computer for wifi it is useless.  I didn't know to turn off all the apps in the background so I used 75 % of my data the first night.  I will not be able to send pictures with that card so Sally is starting a blog that will include all my emails, pictures along with her thoughts and comments.

From Nassau we motored across the yellow banks which is filled with shallow coral heads.  Sally did as all the guide books recommend and stood on the bow for a hour or so when we were crossing the most dangerous part.  The bad weather made most boats hunker down in Nassau so when the weather broke it looked like D Day on the English Channel, the water was filled with all types of boats from megayachts to 16' skiffs, motor & sail.  We always had a dozen boats in sight, each on a slightly different heading.  We made it to Normans Caye to anchor so I could give a Budwieser (I cheated him and used Bud Lite he will never forgive me) toast to Norman Gainey in Canton,MS, I believe the islands namesake.  I'm sure he had been here because there was a huge pile of crushed stone on the island