Hope Town Marina

Wednesday 12th - Low tide is 1pm so we figure we need to be in Hope Town by 11am. We skip breakfast and head out. The wind is blowing 15-20kt on our nose so we motor. Syd realizes we have left the outboard on the dinghy. We didn't want to try bringing it up in the dark last night and completely forgot about it this morning. We slow down, Syd climbs down and tilts the motor up but the bow is still lifting high as the wind gets under it. We tie it lower and cut our speed to 4kts.
We get into to the harbour OK but the few moorings that are available are private or not usable. Now we're trapped we don't want to risk going out again on a falling tide so pick up a private mooring and consider our options. We call Hope Town marina and they have a slip so we take it. It's a resort marina with pool, poolside bar, restaurant etc.. We do go in the pool but don't attempt the table tennis as it's too windy. We dinghy over to Hope Town to get some of Vernon's coconut bread. We take a walk to the and of the upper road and sit in the chairs (I call it the cialis view).

It didn't look like this, the wind is blowing hard and there were white caps on the waves so we were pretty comfortable with our decision to stay in the marina.
Thursday 13th - We do our laundry.
Friday 14th - The wind has shifted round to the SE and is blowing into the marina. We consider staying for another day but it's $2/ft and we've had enough of sitting in a marina. They can't find the key to unlock the water, then they can't find the bolt cutters so we lend them ours. We fill up and leave. We had a great sail up to Fisher's Bay and picked up a mooring there.