That was ugly!

Day #4: Knowing the weather window was closing, and with the sole idea of bettering our chances of not getting hammered on the 40nm open ocean crossing to Nassau, we departed Chub Cay at o'dark-thirty (4:30 am). The plan worked--for about 3 hours. Then it didn't work--at all. The smooth sailing fell apart soon after Nellie's radar started painting a big cloud buildup to our east. By this time there was a large swell also coming from that direction. The winds built. The waves built. The rain came down in buckets. All we could do was hang on as Nellie galloped onward. Sometime during this tumult we even got to watch a waterspout cross in front of us.

We must have lived because today's picture shows Bicki happily changing our yellow quarantine flag for the Bahamas courtesy flag. We have officially arrived! A very bumpy 40nm today and 312nm total. DBH