Allen's Pensacola to Moraine Cay

3/30/10 7:00 am

I was only up once during the night to pee and check on the boat. We have swung around a little but wind is calm. I sleep a bit more then we are up just after sunrise for breakfast of cereal, fruit yogurt and milk. We weight out anchor and fight with our main again. We shake out the reef from the other day and check all the lines but it but our main still won’t deploy fully. Very frustrating. We get it to about the same place as usual then we have a nice following wind so we have put the Main out to starboard and the jib out to port and run wing and wing in light air down to Moraine. I finish my homemade camera sling because I am not forgetting my camera again! Dave the Mighty Fisherman gets a yellowtail on the pole sailing through the deep cut between Umbella Cay and Moraine. Dinner! We anchor and then I dive the anchor and reset it and dig it in. I check Tranquility’s anchor. We dinghy out to the reef. It’s a perfect day to snorkel. I get some really nice photos with my camera. It worked better than expected and my harness rig is good too.

Back to Land Escaper for a lunch of bratwurst and left over spaghetti sauce. We help Todd make lobster tickler as he is determined to spear a lobster. A tickler is a piece of bent wire on a pole used to reach is a hole behind a lobster and poke him in the backside until he comes out of his hole and you can grab, spear or net him. Then I take a short nap on deck while Todd. Randy and Richard drop the girls at the beach and go back to reef for an hour. When Todd is back on board. NO lobsters but he had a good time trying.

We sail back to Allen’s Pensacola. In the deep cut we catch another yellowtail and a nice mutton snapper! Yeah! At Allen’s Pensacola There are different boats and very calm seas. It’s low tide so we creep in and we hit 5 ft then 4.9 ft and turn around and anchor in 6 ft of water. We must not draw the 5 feet Sunsail told us! I dive and set the anchor and Todd goes in dinghy to help Grant look for main anchor. No luck and Grant gets cold in the water so Todd comes back for me. I drive and he hangs over bow and we search.

Richard and Grant search in other dinghy. Water is very calm and clear like glass. Just as the sun sets R and G find anchor! Yes!. We put it aboard Dark Petryl and Grant comes for dinner. We have chicken baked and grilled. Fresh broccili and canned green beans. With white wine we toast to successful anchor fishing! Then the moon comes up and paints a golden path to Dark Petryl for Grant to follow home. What a great day today! We all head for a deep restful sleep.