Hurry Up and Wait

That is what we are doing know as the window to cross to the Bahamas was good for crossing but would have made the last leg of the trip to The Berry Islands pretty dicey. This is an interesting decision considering our trip from Ft Lauderdale to Miami. I was going to name a post "the definition of insanity", because even though I knew that exiting an inlet with the current opposing the waves is tough, I thought how bad can it be. In other words doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The NE swell was about 5-6feet and the pounding was barely tolerable however when I started the turn South and found the shallower water(15') it became a tumult of square holes bordered those by those same waves. It was an interesting lesson in hydrodynamics. Once we freed ourselves from this error, we were able to put the sails up and took off at nearly 7 kts. The wind was on the beam,blowing 18-25kts,the NE swell had company(an easterly 3-4'wind wave)which made for an "interesting" motion. Needless to say we made good time to Miami to meet Conrad and Sally. After missing the weather window we decided to cruise down to No Name Harbor today,we had a nice sail and a fun cruisers get together. Looks like we could be waiting awhile for the next opportunity to cross the Gulf Stream