Bahamas - Ragged Islands, Raccoon Cay to Water Cay and onto Thompson Bay, Long Island

We left Raccoon Cay at 7am, Sojourn was a white speck in the distance, she’d left around 6am

We expected some close hauled sailing so stuck one reef in the main and had the full Genoa out.

The day was lovely with sunshine and the Bahamas Blue sea did not fail to delight.

We had a pod of dolphins on our bow for about 15 minutes

We are sailing north along the chain of Ragged Islands, and we bypass islands and rocks constantly

Eventually we caught up with and overtook Sojourn. As we have a longer water-line length, in most conditions we’ll be the faster yacht

Beautiful if slightly windy conditions

Jenny reading

Nicholas on duty

Our evening stop is Water Cay, and we took the southern entrance over a bar with 1.9m of water over the bar. Sojourn went around, both arriving at the same time

Anchor down in Water Cay

Sojourn at anchor

Tuesday was another early day, and we upped anchor at 6.30am to do the run to Thompson Bay / Salt Pond on Long Island. The wind was predicted to be on the nose, and we only hoisted a 3 reefed main for stability

Once again, Sojourn had left earlier than us. Unfortunately they had a breakage of their Main Sheet, causing them to drop their Main, and do the dangerous job of trying to subdue a moving boom to attach ropes and tie it fast. We went past Sojourn with them under motor and hobby horsing in the wind on the nose conditions

Anchor down in Thompson Bay, Long Island. Tomorrow we’ll go ashore to get a repair done and organize a vehicle to sightsee Long Island.