Asureyez
New Member
- Apr 22, 2007
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- Boat Info
- Sea Ray 460 Sundancer Hardtop 2001 - SOLD
- Engines
- Cummins 450 Diesels
Mates after a fitful few days last week fretting over the weather and sea conditions in the Gulfstream ... I noticed that from Wednesday the to Friday from 2 am the wind had dropped from 15 Knts to 2 and seas in the Gulfstream laid down to 1-2 ft from 7-9. Saturday morning at first light the Admiral and I slipped the ropes from LYC and headed east in dead calm and flat seas bound for Lucaya, Grand Bahama. We made accross the Stream with out incidence running at 2200, but seas were building to 2-4 as we went into the west end of Northwest Providence Channel and were met with rolling 4 foot seas with wind on the nose. We left LYC at Port Everglades at 7AM and were tied up at Port Lucaya Marina at 1:00.
Had a great time shopping at the Marina complex and had a a great meal at the Westin Hotel Chophouse.
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Sunday we played at the marina, had a nice breakfast and shoved off for West End some 30 miles back North West. We fueled and took on 160 Gal diesel (3.29 a gal at Port Lucaya). We got off the fuel dock at 2:30 and headed west passing well south of the Freeport Shipping Terminal (about a mile off shore). It was a windy wet and slow ride. We went with all the canvas up flying much of the time on instruments. Salt was so think on the windscreens I could have scraped pounds of it off! Unless you noticed the SR windshield washing system is a great idea poorly executed. I'm going to hook up "on blade arm" water jets ASAP.
We tied up at West End @ 6:00ish at Old Baham Bay Marina. New docks, and a windswept landscape surrounded by home construction. The high spot was the Restrauant "Aqua" top self all the way, with table side cooking ... the Cherries Jubilee were a outstanding ... Derek was our waiter and took great care of use. And what was very unusuals was the low prices and they didn't add the tip automatically (that is the common practice in the Bahamas I've found). OLd Bahama Bay is a quiet marina and protected from current but not winds.
We hung around waiting for half tide Monday moring so we could take the Little Bahama Bank by Indian Key and shave off nearly three hours run time and 70 gals of oil. At 10:30 we hit the Bank and headed east boiund for Spanish Key... This cut is really shallow and would unpassable for us with 5ft. draw, we went over the reefs at 1000 rpms with on hard swept bottom sometimes with a very skinny 6.5 ft. I learned to spell pucker with a capital "P" that's for sure.
We ran from the east side of the reef to north of Mangrove Cay and then on to Great Sale Cay where we stopped to try to find the "blue Hole" south of the Cay ... which proved to be elusive. If we could have found it, we'd have stayed the night on the hook to dive on it the next day. But we pushed on to Spanish Cay and tied up at 5:30, cleaned up and ate supper at the restruant at the Marina. The food was really good in plain fish camp out island surroundings. The shocker was our meal cost 50% more than the truely POSH Aqua or the Westin Chophouse the two nights previous!
We're off on adventures and maybe a dive ... may stay in Spanish or may move to Green Turtle, I gotta check with the Admiral . More to follow.
Pics to follow:
Had a great time shopping at the Marina complex and had a a great meal at the Westin Hotel Chophouse.
Pics to Follow:
Sunday we played at the marina, had a nice breakfast and shoved off for West End some 30 miles back North West. We fueled and took on 160 Gal diesel (3.29 a gal at Port Lucaya). We got off the fuel dock at 2:30 and headed west passing well south of the Freeport Shipping Terminal (about a mile off shore). It was a windy wet and slow ride. We went with all the canvas up flying much of the time on instruments. Salt was so think on the windscreens I could have scraped pounds of it off! Unless you noticed the SR windshield washing system is a great idea poorly executed. I'm going to hook up "on blade arm" water jets ASAP.
We tied up at West End @ 6:00ish at Old Baham Bay Marina. New docks, and a windswept landscape surrounded by home construction. The high spot was the Restrauant "Aqua" top self all the way, with table side cooking ... the Cherries Jubilee were a outstanding ... Derek was our waiter and took great care of use. And what was very unusuals was the low prices and they didn't add the tip automatically (that is the common practice in the Bahamas I've found). OLd Bahama Bay is a quiet marina and protected from current but not winds.
We hung around waiting for half tide Monday moring so we could take the Little Bahama Bank by Indian Key and shave off nearly three hours run time and 70 gals of oil. At 10:30 we hit the Bank and headed east boiund for Spanish Key... This cut is really shallow and would unpassable for us with 5ft. draw, we went over the reefs at 1000 rpms with on hard swept bottom sometimes with a very skinny 6.5 ft. I learned to spell pucker with a capital "P" that's for sure.
We ran from the east side of the reef to north of Mangrove Cay and then on to Great Sale Cay where we stopped to try to find the "blue Hole" south of the Cay ... which proved to be elusive. If we could have found it, we'd have stayed the night on the hook to dive on it the next day. But we pushed on to Spanish Cay and tied up at 5:30, cleaned up and ate supper at the restruant at the Marina. The food was really good in plain fish camp out island surroundings. The shocker was our meal cost 50% more than the truely POSH Aqua or the Westin Chophouse the two nights previous!
We're off on adventures and maybe a dive ... may stay in Spanish or may move to Green Turtle, I gotta check with the Admiral . More to follow.
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