Hatchet Bay was not what we hoped. Our friend had the flu and there were bugs in the anchorage. We walked through town and there was not much going on and the grocery store was not great so we decided to leave early the next morning.
We were up early and did our chores and took Moose ashore for his walk. As we attempted to haul anchor the windlass decided to have a power problem and John had to raise it by hand. It delayed us but we were on our way in no wind at all. We motored to Current Cut and through the cut at ebb tide with our speed over 9 knots. Then we made our way up to Spanish Wells asking two other boats to lead us in as our draft was too deep. They called the depth out to us as we went since our depth exceeded the minimum low water depth. We made it in and found a vacant mooring ball to catch and settled in for the evening.
Spanish Wells was settled by Loyalists from the states during the Revolution and English Puritans who were seeking religious freedom. It is a Methodist community as the Wesley brothers landed here before landing in Georgia and founded their church. It is a charming well cared for community. We hope to explore it on Monday. Everything closes down on Sunday so we will just relax and plan to rent a golf cart on Monday to explore. Tues. we will head for Royal Is. to stage for our departure to The Abacos on Tuesday night just after midnight. We plan now to sail over night to Little Harbor to time our arrival well.
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