We have been in Spanish Wells since Sat. afternoon and have done laundry, filled a diesel jug and done some grocery shopping for produce. We rented a golf cart for the day yesterday to tour the island. It is a lovely settlement. The homes and yards are all well cared for and most citizens ride golf carts along the narrow streets. It seems like everyone is related by family ties here on the island. We are on a mooring ball east of the harbor and take our dinghy in for shore trips. There are a couple of boats here from Rock Sound as well. Our windlass stopped working in Hatchet Bay. John is trying to figure what the problem is. He has cleaned all of the electrical connections and thinks it may be a jammed clutch. To unjam it would require disassembling the entire thing and we are not sure we are up for that so we will be hauling our 73 lb anchor plus chain up by hand. That will be quite a challenge.
We have changed to Daylight Saving Time and are the same zone as the East Coast.
Today we have to decide which way we will go to leave here. We can hire a pilot to lead us out through the reefs on the East side or take a day to go to the West to the Egg Island Cut and leave at the crack of dark at 2 a.m to head north to Abacos. Several boats left today but we were not ready and so will be on our own.
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