{"id":2886,"date":"2014-03-28T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2014-03-28T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:28:46","slug":"can-you-say-another-cold-front-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Can you say \u201canother cold front\u201d? I can…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday mid-morning and we are yet again sitting at anchor waiting for the wind to settle down as yet another cold front passes through the area.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know it\u2019s Friday because I listened to the Cruisheimer\u2019s SSB radio Net today and they told me so and I also consulted with my calendar.\u00a0 When you don\u2019t have a weekend to look forward to, with two days off, it\u2019s very easy to forget which day of the week it is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am hopeful that it\u2019s spending time aboard cruising that is causing me to loose track of what day of the week it is and not something more sinister.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to focus on that right now.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cQuick Bob, what year is it?\u201d\u00a0 Uhh\u2026..2014?\u00a0 There, not so bad.\u00a0 I guess you\u2019ll have to take my word for it that I don\u2019t have a tear-off calendar near the nav station on Pandora.<\/p>\n

\u201cBob, Bob, where are you going with all this?\u00a0 Snap out of it and get to the point.\u201d Ok, OK, thanks, I needed that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Friday\u2026.. No wait, I already said that.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s plenty windy with sustained winds, let\u2019s call them \u201cfresh breezes\u201d in the 20s with higher gusts.\u00a0 That\u2019s a bit much and with a wave fetch across the harbor, the water is kicking up a bit here in Georgetown.<\/p>\n

Chris Parker, the weather router we use said, on this morning\u2019s weather forecast on the SSB radio, that this cold front is likely to be the last really strong one to hit us in the Bahamas this season.\u00a0 Yes, there\u2019s another one coming through on Sunday but it\u2019s not likely to be anywhere near as strong as this and prior fronts have been.\u00a0 It\u2019s high time as April is just around the corner (see, I do know what day of the month is) and springtime calmer conditions should begin to dominate.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s good as we only have a month left on our cruise and I\u2019d love to be able to move around a bit prior to heading back to Nassau and the US.<\/p>\n

In particular, we would like to visit the Jumentos and Ragged islands which are south west from here.\u00a0 This part of the Bahamas is much less traveled by cruisers as there very few good harbors and getting there can be challenging.\u00a0 With no settlements along the chain, we will be on our own with know one to help us if we get into trouble.\u00a0 We will actually have to travel southeast to Long Island when the winds shift to the west with the coming cold front on Sunday and then wait till the easterlies fill in again and then head to the southwest and on to the Jumentos.<\/p>\n

These two lsland chains are about 50 miles long from one end to the other, not a very long distance and are laid out in a crescent that runs on a gentle curve in a northeast to southwest direction.\u00a0 Once you get to Duncan Town, at the very most west portion of the Raggeds, you are within 50 miles of Cuba. \u00a0Now, that\u2019s a spot we\u2019d love to visit.\u00a0 We have met quite a few Canadians and a few Americans who have visited there.\u00a0 Perhaps we will soon be able to go.\u00a0 \u00a0Washington?\u00a0 Are you listening?<\/p>\n

Visiting Cuba is at the top of the list for Brenda.\u00a0 Me too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here we sit, in the wind, waiting for things to settle down so we can get on with it.\u00a0 Hope so\u2026<\/p>\n

Yesterday Brenda and I took some time to go ashore and had lunch a nice little resort here in Georgetown called St. Francis.\u00a0 They serve simple lunch fare on a beautiful deck overlooking the water.\u00a0\u00a0 This view is pretty representative of just how beautiful it is.\"\"<\/a>After lunch we headed out to the nearby ocean beach to watch the waves crash ashore.\u00a0 The beach was about two miles long and we had most of it completely to ourselves.\u00a0 Even with 100 boats anchored nearby, most everyone stayed aboard given the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the very strong onshore winds and waves, we were pretty well coated with salt when we returned to Pandora.\u00a0 Happily, I had filled our water tanks with the reverse-osmosis (watermaker) earlier in the day so we were free to shower and clean up.\u00a0 I love, LOVE, our watermaker.\u00a0 Brenda?\u00a0 Love isn\u2019t strong enough to describe how she feels about it.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s on for today?\u00a0 Not sure but I do have a good book.\u00a0 Not too much on the agenda here in the warm and sunny Bahamas when the wind is blowing.\u00a0 Good thing we aren\u2019t in a rush.<\/p>\n

Sorry though, \u00a0for not including any great shots of sunsets, turtles, shells… \u00a0You’ll just have to check old posts for more scintillating pix.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my report and I\u2019m sticking to it\u2026<\/p>\n

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