Arrival to the Bahamas, Gun Cay

11/22/09 After a great crossing of the Atlantic Ocean we arrived at 2:30 pm set our anchor and decided to celebrate our accomplishment. With a couple of margaritas  and a few calls home. Were still not sure of the cost of the phone calls so we are trying to keep them to only emergencies.  E-MAIL is best, but very hard because it seems in a boat on the water we are always moving. The internet  signal is in and out. We have to type each letter 5 or 6 times then when we think we have the e-mail  answered we  lose the entire message we just  typed and have start over again. NOT FUN!!!! Triple A COMES OUT!!! 

 

11/23/09 The  next morning we had coffee and motored across the Great Bahamas Bank, hot and sunny the whole way we left at 5:00 am and arrived  in Chub Cay (key) at 5:30 pm long day. Anchored at a nice private beach with villas. Chub Cay is  a very small fishing and lobster diving town.  After a  nice night sleep, John doe  went to customs and he was gone about 3 hours. Triple A swam and cleaned the bottom of  GETLOST with a hand held brush for two hours, good work out.  When Romeo returned some people approached us in their dingy and they  join us for a beer, they were  from CANADA. We  filled their 3  of water jugs from the  water maker, which is  now working well after $2,500.00 in new parts a labor in Miami.

  11/20/09 The water maker story, TJ came on GETLOST the boat at 9:00 pm at night left at 1:00 am Romeo was driving him back and forth in the middle of the night after sailing all day from Long Key arriving in Miami at 7:00 pm in the dark, putting down the anchor and then driving a mile plus in the dingy  to the beach in the dark not knowing were he was going and the motor kept dying and Romeo would have to pull to start over and over again, and  after picking up TJ, they took turns pulling over and over again  to start the engine.  Not to much fun!!!  TJ  was not able to fix the Spectra water maker that  night. So Romeo dropped him back to his car and  got back to GETLOST around 3:00am.  What a night !!!!   And we were looking forward to another visit from TJ  the next night also. 

11/21/09 We got lucky and all the parts were close to Miami, so the water maker was fixed the next night,  after a few beers with TJ, Romeo dropped him off back to the beach. On the phone, Dad help earlier with the dingy motor, new spark plug and the carburetor checked for problems, no more pulling 20 times to start engine, and so dingy is for now  good to go!!! Thanks Dad!!!! 

11/24/09 After our guest left with their water in Chub Cay a storm  started late  at night not too bad 15 to 17 knot winds. That morning  Triple A had her first melt down,  she had not stepped foot off the GETLOST since leaving Snead Boat Works just south of  Tampa Bay FL. in Palmetto, were we stored her and had work done on her. What nice people and very good at what they do, 2 thumbs up on Snead Boat Works, Thank You all.

Romeo suggested a swim to the beach after we fueled up and reset our Anchors Romeo decided to put out two Anchors because  we are in  a sandy bottom, sounds good to me. When we went to top off are fuel in Chub Cay we had to wait an hour for the guy to get back from lunch we meet a lot of guys also waiting,  you don’t see the in the USA.

 

Later  we went  for swimming we just jumped off GETLOST and start heading to the beach, the whole time Triple A is swimming she is thinking, with her yellow fins and  in her blue swim suit, she looks a lot like the Dolphin fish we caught the other day, SCARY!!!!  SHARK FOOD!!!!Made it to the beach, it was a  short beach and we had a short walk. It started to thunder and lighting, so we quickly swam back to GETLOST.