WHAT ? MANGOES AGAIN???

DATE MARCH 28,2008	TIME START 0945	CRUISE FROM MANGOES	CRUISE TO BACK TO MANGOES
ENGINE HOURS START 1409.6	ENGINE HOURS FINISH 1411.5	SEA CONDITIONS ROUGH SEAS	WEATHER CONDITIONS WINDY

JOURNAL

We went to Red Bay to try to find the anchor. The weather forecast was for calm , light to moderate breezes. They were wrong! We could not find the anchor and I don’t think we will, but we will try next week. The new anchor (fortress knock off) held great. It is for a 38’ boat and if the weather gets bad we will have another mess on our hands. Our buddy boat went to fisher’s bay to catch a mooring ball. We have a forecast for “strong” winds so we will stay put in Mangoes.

APRIL 9, 2008

Left Mangoes at 0940. We headed to Great Guana Cay. We picked up a mooring ball in fishers bay. Half way across to Guana Cay, the auto helm showed the rudder at 26 degrees when we had the rudder at mid ship. The indicator slowly fixed itself. When we tried to use the auto pilot, the helm went hard over so we had to shut it down. We worked on it when we got to the mooring ball. We were able to fix the problem some what, we need to get some parts and we will look for the parts in Marsh Harbor the next time we go over.

APRIL 10, 2008

We went from fishers bay to red bay. We dropped some buoys to look for the anchor. We still did not find the anchor. We sailed the whole way. It was great.

April 11, 2008

We motored from Red Bay to Marsh Harbor. The wind was on our nose. We anchored near the East side of the harbor. We went into town and got the parts for the auto helm.

April 13, 2008

We pulled anchor and motored back into Mangoes. The weather is calling for strong winds and rain with 20 to 30 knot winds. During the passing of the storm front, we will see gale force winds. Safety dictates we come into the marina during this cold front. We got another anchor, this is a fortress 40lb anchor. The fortress knock off we had for a 38’ boat was only 20 lbs so we are in great shape with this one.