April 25 Passage Across the Bank...Not !

We had planned to leave Nassau for Chub Cay on Monday. We expected some squalls across the Bahama Bank but the front arrived, packing far stronger storms than were anticipated. When we woke up, a quick look to the horizon and a double-check of weather had us rethink our decision to leave and we decided to wait a day. We were disappointed to spend a rainy day on the boat. When we got to Chub Cay, though, we had an opportunity to talk on the radio with a south-bound boat that did come across during those storms. Boy-howdy, were we glad we waited!! They got beat up in sixty (that’s 6-0) knot winds and steep twelve foot seas which take on a whole new meaning when the water is only fifteen feet deep to begin with. Once you are on the bank, there is no place to run and no place to hide…you are just in it.
Not us!!