Sunday, March 9, 2014
The Racing Turtle
Wednesday 5th - Went for a snorkel on the rock while waiting for the tide to get through the passage between Lubbers Quarter and Elbow Cay. We hoist the sails and find ourselves in amongst the boats milling about before the Hope Town Wednesday sailing race with 10 minutes to go before the start. After a few moments of shall we shan't we we decided to go for it and went up to the committee boat to ask if we could join in. We had to get off to a slow start because we had no idea what the course was. We think we came last but we had great fun.
Here we are having tacked too early and having to use our momentum to get round the mark.
One of the boats racing was the Abaco Rage, a beautiful sloop built on the Man o' War. It is 28' long, 10' wide but has a 38' boom. They have planks, called pries, that they slide out and scoot out on to to balance all that main sail.
Unfortunately we couldn't attend the after race party as we were heading to Marsh Harbour to refill the propane tank and there was some heavy weather days coming.
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Hi Vince and Syd! Enjoyed your posts - longing to get back to Marsh Harbour by Thursday. Of course we are expecting 10 inches of snow on Wednesday as we head to Fort Lauderdale! So great you got a chance to race!!! Would love to join you on a future race. Remind me to show you another snorkeling spot on the chart. There's a sunken barge to the SE of Elbow Cay. You can anchor nearby and swim to it. Cheers, Diane and Bob
ReplyDeleteSorry - I meant to the SE of Lubber's Quarters Cay!!! The "sunken boat" is indicated on most charts. It's in about 8 feet of water (or less depending on the tide).
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