Sailing EMANUEL IV: Oh What a night....

What a night last night...

Drone photo of Hani and Cocoa

Schooner Bay

Sorry - no photos..., and no it is not what you are all thinking..
It blew almost 40 kts last night and a boat that was moored was drifting (yes, with the mooring lines) through the mooring field, including through our poor little boat.

The colors...

Even Cocoa is sun-bathing

Fish cleaning

Hani celebrating B-D

Schooner bay

Hard at work

We were alerted that something going out side, by a sound of something crashing into our boat. We run outside, and saw a sailboat drifting with its anchor rubbing against our rub-rail, with a poor guy, in a dinghy trying to get hold of it and control it. It still had its two mooring lines and floats (red ones...) connected to it.
We pushed him away from the front of our boat, so he was now drifting along side in 35 kts of wind and rain, and moving toward our boat again. We fended (or better said defended) our boat.

But lest go back.

We are in Hope Town in the Island of Abaco in the Bahamas.

Hope Town Mooring field

Hope Town is a very very pictorial town. Most of the houses in and around the bay and beach are rentals. Nice little shops, nice hotels, and overall very easy to be in and stay around place.
We arrived on Sunday after a nice motor-sail from Schooner Bay.

The color through empty cup

We enjoyed our time in Schooner bay very much. We flew the drone, walked the beaches, toured around, fished (I did catch a white-tip shark in the marina there, and had to cut the line and let the shark go. White-tip in in declining numbers and we do not eat sharks...). How ever, I did not catch any other fish. It did not stopped us from receiving a very nice dolphin fish (Mahi Mahi) from a very nice fishing mean machine boat (a 76' Viking) that was next to us.

With out words

I did clean the fish (apparently the wrong way for big fish, as it took me 45 min to do it, while watching them cleaning much larger fish in less than 5 min), and every one was watching me and enjoying the cleaning show...
We grilled the fish and are still eating it after 4 days...
We also got a Wahoo (cleaned and cut already) which is still frozen.

Let the fun begin....

Here, in Hope Town, we are on a mooring ball and enjoying our time. We do our walking, we are doing laundry today, and plan to walk some more. Yesterday we went snorkeling, swimming and.... yes... drinking the famous 5 Rum drinks T-shirt and certificate competition. (see at the bottom of the blog)

It is going to rain and storm more today and tomorrow, so plan staying close to the boat, and if all is well, sailing to Marsh Harbor on Friday.
We still need to go to the mandatory tour of the last remaining oil, manually-operated light house. Which is the Hope Town light house.
More in our next blog.
Do not forget to look at the photos below..