It’s Friday morning here in Little Farmer’s Cay and the sun is rising along with the wind. The forecast (Have I said that we LIVE for the weather?) is for a cold front to come through today which will bring with it NE winds in the 20-25 range with higher gusts. Yesterday the winds were just about nil with only a light breeze from the south. Light winds are not very common here and we enjoyed the respite. Having said that, it was a bit too hot with no breeze to cool things off. On top of that, horrors of horrors, the no-se-ums were out in force during the Little Farmer’s Cay Yacht Club happy hour. Can you imagine the inconvenience drinking rum punch all the while slapping at bugs that are so small you can’t even see the little buggers? Yes, I am sure that you feel our pain.
In the interest of fair disclosure, I should come clean on the “yacht club” thing. Here, in the Bahamas, a local opens a restaurant and calls it a yacht club and the name is about the only thing that’s like what we know as a yacht club. Having said that, today the LFCYC will really be a yacht club in every sense of the word as they are hosts to class racing for Bahamas Sloops. As I write this, at 08:00, the mail boat from Nassau, with island music blasting just pulled up to the yacht club dock with a deck load of sloops to be unloaded for the competition. Today is the kickoff for a weekend of festivities here at LFC and the biggest event of the year in these parts. I understand that there will be racing, music and plenty of fun for all. I can’t wait.
The owner and self styled commodore of the LFYC, Roosevelt Nixon (is that a great name or what?) said to me at dinner last night, that if I came to the dock this morning perhaps I can get on board one of the boats for the racing today. That would be fun. I’ll have to see what Brenda wants to do.
Perhaps I should sign off for now so I can stick my nose into the thick of things to see what I can do to participate.
Ta Ta and Tally Ho for now! Off to the races.