Hi All

We sailed today from Rock Sound Harbor on southern Eleuthera to Royal Island Harbor near Spanish Wells at the north end of Eleuthera.  Winds were 20-25 kts on the beam with gusts to 30 kts in squalls seas running 3-5 ft.  Had the best sail of the trip.  With main and jib, we were doing over 7 kts over the ground consistently with speeds as high as 8 kts in the gusts.  Island Time was maintaining about 10 degrees of heel.  Love this boat.

As we wanted to make Current Cut at slack to minimize the current which can get over 3 kts, so we had to slow the boat down as we would have been two hours early for the slack.

Spent the last week in Rock Harbor Sound waiting out the weather.  It was rainy and windy from Sunday through Thursday with tstorms on Monday/Tuesday.  Worst weather of the trip.  Rock Harbor was a nice little town.  Clean and neat with lots of flowers growing the the yards of the homes.  Lots of churches as we have seen throughout the rest of the Bahamas.  Especially noticeable since this is the week before Easter.  Went to the homecoming festival at Rock Sound.  Had many booths set up with great ribs and conch prepared many ways.

Sunday or Monday, its on to the Abacos across the Northeast Providence channel which is the Atlantic Ocean.  Wind should be 10-15 from the SW with 3-5 ft seas.  We will be heading north so it should be a comfortable sail.

Keep you posted on our progress.

John & Genie