Heading back north in Abacos for passage back to the states

We reviewed the winds and conditions required for a good passage across the Gulf Stream and a good weather appears to be in only 3 days. We quickly started a 100 mile multi day sail north toward our launch point at great sale cay.

We first did a short visit to treasure cay.

Our first night we spent our favorite man jack cay that we visited last year.

We had an exciting time passing thru the whale cut as we had to let a freighter thru infront of us at the narrow cut in 20 knot winds and salty seas. We hit the whale cut just at slack to avoid cut issues of swell and current.

Calm conditions at great sale cay

At one point before sunset a dolphin came to the bow of the boat and swam with us for a few minutes swimming only a few feet infront of us at the very front and jumping out of the water and swimming again. Since the water was very clear we could see the dolphin swimming and jumping.

We successfully arrived in fort piece a few hours early at 7 am with very solid winds and lumpy mixed seas. The seas required a lot of power for our autopilot so we had to run the engine for a bit at 3 am to recharge the battery a bit. We left our full sail and jib out and had to change course a bit as the wind clocked a bit westerly as predicted in the early morning. We sailed directly up the icw to Vero marina with good winds.