Andrew made all of his flights and arrived at Little Farmers Cay on Dec 14th around 4pm. Thanks to Damon and Melanie for taking him in and getting him to the airport in time!The airport terminal at Farmers is a gazebo on the beach. We took the dinghy around the island to wait for him. As you can imagine, the plane was maintained in the Bahamian style, landing on an airstrip the size of a sidewalk with a nearly flat tire. We were very glad to see him again and he looks great. A short dinghy ride back and he was home, aboard the Adamo.
Interesting news from college: Andrew has a girl friend.
Due to the weather we spent the next few days at Farmers waiting out TS Olga. The boys speared fish and lobster. Did not take Andrew any time to get in on the lobster action. Sue and I went to town (that is the dock, a restaurant, liquor store/bar and a nearly empty 20 foot by 20 foot grocery store).
On Dec 17th we had our weather window and sailed with following wind and seas to George Town. There are 71 boats anchored up here. Later in the season that will mushroom to over 450. We’ll be out of here by then!
As Captain, it was good to make it here with everything working (knock on wood). Some minor repairs needed: small tear in the main sail and reconnecting the conduit inside the mast for the wiring leading to the lights and instruments at the mast head.
Fortunately, we found an islander who could patch the sail. We pulled the sail from the mast and boom and dinghied it to shore. Doug and I carried it to a little house where the repairs took place in the yard on an old (very old and rustic) Singer, foot pedal sewing machine. Three hours later we were ready to go.
Also, the local hardware store had one rivet gun in stock which we will use to repair the conduit. Having stocked up on water and fresh provisions, we hope to have the next weather window by Dec 22nd to sail to Long Island.
