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1. Double J spent the winter in the Abacos, Bahamas at the Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour Marina in Marsh Harbour – their 8th winter season there. The winter went by quickly with so much to do with the Royal Marsh Harbour Yacht Club (RMHYC) with MahJong, daily yoga classes, water color classes and painting (check out my paintings at Blurb.com under my name), walking every day, dances with the club, pickleball 3 times a week, outings for birding and exploring, and a few dingy rides to explore some of the surrounding cays. We ate fresh fish and lobster caught by club members every week. Lots of fun and a great bunch of people.

   Arrived back in the states late on Wednesday April 11th after an uneventful crossing. We checked the weather and it looked like a short window for a crossing was open for Wednesday

   Three RMHYC boats left Marsh Harbour on Monday April 9th, and 7 hours later after cruising by Matt Lowe Cay, Fish Cays, and the dreaded Don’t Rock Passage to avoid the Whale Passage out into the ocean, then past Green Turtle Cay, and Powell Cay, Double JJ anchored in a really nice calm anchorage called Crab Cay for a peaceful overnight. Next day left Crab Cay and slowly cruised westward to Mangrove Cay in calm winds and perfectly clear water… a really nice day … the surface of the water was so calm you could easily see the bottom as we slowly cruised along… saw lots of fish, a couple of big turtles and starfish… anchored with the winds about 5 to 10 mph from the east under the lee of Mangrove Cay. We were able to pick up the NOAA weather information on VHF and it still looked like a good weather window for the crossing. We could always duck into Lacayan Canal if the weather turned bad, but it looked like it was good. Early the next morning we left Mangrove at 4 am (ugh!) with a bright moon and winds still in the 5 to 10 mph range and headed west towards the edge of the Bahamas Banks and into the Atlantic… by daylight we arrived at the edge of the banks, and the water turned from the brilliant tourquoise of the Bahama Bank to a really deep dark blue color of the Atlantic … the ocean swells were 3 to 5 feet high, spaced well apart, with a slight 1 to 2 ft chop on top.. not too bad.

   As we got out to the edge of the Gulf Stream the waves picked up with whitecaps and occasional larger waves that bounced us around … This where it became the Gulp Scream with only one gulp and only an occasional scream. We got dumped on good by one or two big waves that sprayed water all over the boat, but by mid stream it calmed down somewhat and as we got closer to the Florida coast it was back to small ocean rollers with no whitecaps.. pretty easy ride. All in all, a nice crossing.

   We are presently at Ft Pierce municipal marina — will stay here for a day or two washing all the salt off and generally tidying the boat up… it takes a while to go from sand in our shoes, to civilization. We both slept in late this morning and we’ll spend some time relaxing with our friends (we crossed with two other boats of the RMHYC) and generally decompressing from the winter…. and getting ready to come back to the fast pace of civilization. We’ll be heading up the ICW in a few days.

   I expect we’ll be back in Green Cove Springs – Reynolds Marina – in another week where we’ll put the boat on-the-hard and head back out west in our RV motorhome for the summer.

   Our GH-37 Double J is still for sale at a way reduced price of $275,000 (or reasonable offer) and we are hoping the economy will pick up enough so someone out there who would like a great boat at a very good price will be interested.

   Judie and Jonathan Jenkins
   GH-37 Great Harbour Double JJ

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