We're finally underway, staging for the Bahamas - anchored off Cape Florida this evening for a 0630 departure for the Bahamas. Weather is a bit squally today but supposed to clear some tomorrow with winds light from south. The light winds, squally weather is what we need to make the crossing of the Gulf Stream and 160nm of east transit to Nassau before the good weather trade winds come back in from the East.
    We are sitting here just after dark, listening to the very quiet whirl of our wind generator (all fixed now with new stainless steel bearings and whisper quiet blades from Europe) which is keeping our batteries topped up. Only downside is that it is so quiet now we can't use it to tell us what the outside wind speed is. We used to be able to tell wind speed by the freq/sound of the noisy old blades. Anybody with an Air-X or Air-Breeze needs to update to these blades.
   Should arrive Nassau about mid-afternoon on Saturday. We'll have wifi at Starbucks there and will update the blog.
   We're off....   Mark and Sue