8:00 AM – I, Jeanne, am not a morning person and the time zone here is 2 hours earlier than Minnesota but waking up to see what Jonathan is preparing for breakfast is one of the many highlights each day.
The guilt Jonathan felt when he was eating a crepe the evening before (while I was getting rained on and calculating liters to gallons) must have gotten the best of him. Plus, he’s just an all-around great guy. Yes, Jonathan was preparing Crepe Suzette!!!
Phenomenal! I will never say I was glad that I didn’t get my crepe the night before (I would have really enjoyed the “worlds best ice-cream” more than the crepe) but I’ll be in Bart’s again next week so I have it to look forward to. Anyway, these crepes were outstanding! We are so spoiled!
After breakfast we readied the boat and began our sail toward Tintamarre. We enjoyed a great sail, had great wind and nicely spread out waves.Sail traffic has been minimal, there’s just not as many sailboats here since the destruction of Hurricane Irma.There was only one other sailboat moored at Tintamarre when we arrived.
We tied up to a strategically located mooring ball. It was very windy so we weren’t able to even get to the island. But, Brooks dove the mooring ball which was in eleven feet of water. After a test review, the fabulous five were taking their 106 exam when “boom.” In the high winds the mooring ball pennant exploded. We were adrift! Thom ran up to the fly bridge and started the engines, other crew pulled our mooring lines aboard, at that time Thom put the boat in gear and circled around to gather the crew. We decided to anchor with ten to one scope which is more than twice what should have been needed. Linda and Thom made the approach which was near the now defunct mooring ball, dropped anchor and paid out about 60 feet of chain. The wind set the anchor. Thom wanted another forty ft. out before attaching the bridle. After the extra 40 ft or 100 total was out the wind confirmed the anchor was set. The crew attached the bridle, paid it out to take the load and Linda backed down on the anchor fairly hard. It held. For confidence, Brooks dove the anchor which he found to be completely buried with the chain going into the seabed.
We had some great fried rice loaded with misc leftovers from the week…what a great way to utilize the leftovers!Everyone had spent a lot of time studying during the week so the testing for the ASA certifications went well. We crashed early. It was our last night together.