Nippers

By Mike Jastrzebski

We arrived in the Bahamas Saturday the 9th. From there we went to Mangrove Cay, then Great Sale Cay, then Spanish Cay and then Green Turtle Cay. Yesterday we arrived at Guana Cay and today we met up with our friends Dane and Terri aboard North Star. Dane and Terri both worked with Mary at the MN Dept. of Health and Terri is the model for the character Terri Dane (Ever wonder where a character’s name comes from?) in Mind Demons.

We started today with a couple of rum drinks at Grabbers, then the pig roast at Nippers, and back to Grabbers for a couple more nips of the demon rum, all in the name of research for the next Wes Darling Book. Tomorrow we head for Marsh Harbour. From there we’re not sure where we’ll go, only that we plan on ending up at the Stranded Naked party on the 29th.

Here are a few pictures of the trip.

 

 

 

So that you don’t think that all we did was enjoy ourselves, it was more work than play on this part of the trip. My alternator went out; that’s still not working. I plan to see if I can get it rebuilt in Marsh Harbour. My golf cart batteries failed to hold a charge; I bought two at Green Turtle Cay. Imagine pulling the batteries, hauling them to a dock in our dinghy, hauling the new batteries back to the boat, shleping them onto the deck and installing them. Along with this my electric windlass crapped out and I had to hand crank the chain and anchor onto the boat before we left Green Turtle. Such is the lazy, relaxed life of a cruising sailor.

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