Scott here. What a day! We finally left George Town, although we are still at Great Exuma Island. We will be here two nights. Tomorrow we want to snorkel a blue hole about 1 mile from here. Then there is a small town we might stop at on the way back.

I will let Rita share the excitement we had on the trip here. Needless to say it took about 40-45 minutes longer than we planned. Plus we stopped for fuel so that added some time.

Plan v ACTUAL
Start at: 9:00 am ACTUAL 8:45 am
End at: 12:00 pm ACTUAL 12:38 pm
Total Time: 3 hours (2:08 travel time plus idle speed and anchoring) ACTUAL
Distance: 19.3 miles ACTUAL 20.2 miles
Avg. Speed: 8.6 mph
Max Speed: 12 mph

FUEL

This won’t be very accurate, but I will do my best to make the numbers accurate. Why? Well, our battery charger isn’t really working. We have a 60 amp charger to charger our three banks of batteries. We have two starter banks with 2 starter batteries in each bank and a house bank with 3 deep cycle batteries of 200 amp hours each. I noticed our batteries were not charging and with some help it looked like the charger wasn’t putting an out a good charge. we have bought two auto battery chargers to push out a total of 35 amps. So, we are running our generator twice as much using twice as much fuel for it. We decided to go this route since we will be leaving the Bahamas in 5 weeks or so. It would be twice as expensive to fix here IF we could get the needed parts.

We put in 47.31 gallons of fuel at $6.09 for a total of $288.12. Based on what we put in on the port side (that doesn’t give fuel to the genny) I figured we used 25 gallons for the genny and 23.31 for moving. Best I can do!

We also had a travel day on Jan. 17. Rita was the sole captain for the travel day!! We moved 0.3 miles in 26 minutes at an average of 0.7 mph! The other boat that was in the anchorage moved so we thought we would have less surge in that spot. We really were not right! We just counted this at travel day #51a since it was less than 1 miles.