Sailing North - The End of the Abacos.

What are you typing in the captain's log? That at 4 35 p.m we hoisted the spinnaker. It's still super nerve-wracking because we've only flown this now twice and we've never really had anybody on the boat with us while we've done it we've just been figuring it out and yeah i mean it feels like it's one of those things where the genoa is comfortable the main is comfortable i don't feel like i can make too many screw-ups there and or if i did i can fix it but with this it's like there's it's this free thing so if it falls or if it goes on the wrong side or attaches to something it just feels like there's a lot that could go wrong and then you ruin this expensive sail and that it just yeah so it feels like there's a lot more on the line so it's very butterflies yeah but it's so pretty and it's out and we're moving normally at an angle where we couldn't sail if we did not have this thing you're gonna kill that engine yes i'm trying to break the captain's log too much to do drop the hook just in the nick of time look at the moon right there it's cool we're tucked away in this tiny little pocket here and the ocean is just right there that's the open ocean just a i don't know maybe a half a nautical mile behind us and it drops off to like 3 000 feet so the idea is tomorrow we're gonna go to this little national park that's over here that little island over there do some snorkeling then go outside hopefully catch some fish in the deep waters maybe some wahoo maybe uh i don't know who knows i don't you know our luck with fishing but anyway yeah that's the plan at least whoa check out that sunrise this is singa's favorite hidey hole loves being where the sail is what are you doing in there is that your fort we left hope town yesterday and made our way to man o' war which is north not south and south is the direction we've been headed since we got here making our way through the abacos but jason's brother is flying into freeport so now we are backtracking kind of going right back the same route we just came except for stopping at new spots this time and picking him up he'll be here for the holidays which is very exciting and then we have him for like a week and jason's entire family well immediate family including his like aunt and uncle and everything anyway they're all coming which is a really big deal because we haven't seen everybody in a long time most certainly not all of us together so anyway exciting stuff for us headed that direction uh and it'll be interesting to go back the same route but make new stops and see if we find something else interesting and new along the way that's our game plan for the next several days so free shark bait we just grabbed this mooring ball i'm surprised we found it it seemed so tiny out here and this is the open ocean behind us there's a a nice element of butterflies and fear going through my chest or stomach or whatever because i don't know it's just us out here floating in the ocean about to go snorkeling with whatever's down there thanks for those words of encouragement and how about you nikki yes i feel like shark bait certainly no there's a mooring ball this is a snorkeling spot so whether there are two of us or whether there are five of us shark bait all the same this is where we were anchored we're gonna come out and go out to sea here doesn't talk about it we can't find any information on it we're gonna assume it's okay and go for it worst case scenario if it's looking crappy or whatever turn around we can always turn around over 20 knots of wind now which means we have to reef the main sail that is what jason is doing now it's windy it's not bad we're sailing baby you ever wonder what it's like from the driver's seat here is the view if you want to be technical you're gonna call it the helm station or the view from the helm turn this off oh don't be a barracuda no be a wahoo it's colorful is that a false tuna it's beautiful but we're not sure what kind of fish he is he's a little little spiky so we're gonna throw him back right well from what i can tell that looked like maybe a skipjack tuna which would have been edible but we weren't sure so we didn't want to kill a we weren't sure we could eat it so we tossed him back next time he wasn't on any of my little fish identification charts anymore we are in through the whale and we are heading to uh just north of no name which is where the pigs were and there's a little spot on the very very southern tip of green turtle key we've got about 30 more minutes of sailing the sun's going down and let's just say tensions are up a little bit because i made nikki throw back that skipjack tuna she's not too happy with me but i we didn't want to kill it if we didn't know what it was and we didn't think it was edible so anyway oops we'll see you tomorrow