Friday, May 15, 2009 6:02:39 PM Location: Chub Cay Anchorage Latitude is 25 degrees 23.937 minutes north. Longitude is 77 degrees 50.115 minutes west. This weather observation was taken on Friday, May 15, 2009 6:02:23 PM local time. Observation location: Chub Cay Anchorage. Latitude is 25 degrees 23.939 minutes north. Longitude is 77 degrees 50.118 minutes west. The air temperature is 78, and water temperature is 0 degrees fahrenheit. The forecast is Sunny, Windy. The current weather is dry. The sky is clear or a few clouds. The wind is 16 knots from the east. The visibility is 8 nautical miles. The wave height is 1 feet with 0 foot swells. The barometer is 1021 millibars and falling. We thought we were set this morning. The anchor held through the night, we had about 15 ft of water under us, and in spite of the wind we had no waves at all. Cool. We got up casually and were trying to get a free internet connection when the harbor police pulled up for an inspection. Their first words were that I could not anchor there as it was the turning basin. I informed them that I was outside of the nearby red buoy and that the chart designated the spot I was in as a Yacht anchorage. The big guy informed me that there was no room for discussion, I had to move. I asked where to? He pointed to the area we were first in, which was too shallow and another area that had even less water. I explained that to him without effect. Then he and his buddy checked the paperwork and the big guy went through the boat with me to find whatever he was afraid I was carrying. After he left, I looked again at the weather and decided we could make a run up here to Chub Cay without much trama, so we did. The anchorage here is nowhere near as nice as we had. It is a wilderness anchorage where the bottom is too shallow to snuggle up to the beach. So we sit about 1/2 mile off the beach with some small wind chop moving us around. I rigged shock absorbers for the flopper stoppers out of bungee cords and have them out. They are back at the end of the booms and working great. So, while not perfectly calm, we are comfortable. The weather calls for wind in the high 20s for several more days. From here, we need to cross the Great Bahama Bank, 60 miles of shallow water that we must cross with the birds up. So, we wait for a period of 2 to 3 days of calm weather. If we get really calm weather, then I will run the 60 miles up to the NW end of the banks and anchor on them. It will be in the wide open, but with no wind the water will be flat. Then Brunswick will be within 36 hours of travel and we will start it in the morning. At least that is the current thinking. David Powered by BoatExec http://www.BoatExec.com