A great day of sailing and exploring on land with great friends from home who are visiting Eleuthera for a week. After picking them up by dinghy from Gauldings Cay Beach in the morning we set sail for Spanish Wells. It was a little sporty in the morning approaching Current Cut due to SE 17kt winds and the waves on our port stern quarter. Wind and waves were directly behind us and diminishing as we got closer to the cut. Arrived at slack tide to transit through the narrow but deep cut. Once on the other side of Current Cut it was a great broad reach to beam reach sail on flat seas for a while, waves building as we got out of the wind shadow from the land.  
Bumped the bottom twice right in the middle of the channel coming into Spanish Wells. Docked at a private dock straight in from the channel. Only tricky part was a big boat on the end of the dock. We had to pass through a narrow space to get in and dock in front of the big boat.  Nice to have extra crew to have roaming fenders as we squeezed into our spot. Nicely tucked in to a well protected space for some windy weather coming through this week. Private dock, rented from Kyle Pinder. 
A great day of sailing with friends from home. Explored Spanish Wells: Wreckers bar, walk on calm Atlantic side beach at low tide, Shipyard bar and then Midnight Rider water taxi to Gene’s Bay N. Eleuthera and taxi back to Gauldings Cay Beach where we started our day. After dinner at Daddy Joe’s we returned to the VRBO villa where we staying with our friends for a few days. 

Sailing with Crew to Spanish Wells

Crew: 6

Crew Logs

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