Pipe Creek Yacht Club

Yes, we are now members of the rag-tag, unofficial Pipe Creek Yacht Club.  A very loose organization of veteran cruisers that make Pipe Creek(not really a "creek" but more of a channel that cuts between Rat Cay, Pipe Cay, Little Pipe Cand Thomas Cay).  It is a great place to weather fronts, which is what we have been doing for the past week.  It is amazing how you meet great folks and how they come in and out of your life at various times while cruising.  To make a long story short, our Savannah friends John and Kathy on Miss Alice, introduced us to Al and Ann on Calypso Poet who live aboard in Ft Lauderdale and Al works at the West Marine there(he helped me with my batteries replacement).  Al and Ann take a few months each year and come to the Bahamas and Pipe Creek is their hangout.  He and several other regulars have spent so much time her over the years that they started the unofficial "PCYC", to which they granted Carryn and I "membership" to this year since we hung out with them for over a week. 

It has been al long week at that.  We dove and hunted as much as we could, but on Tuesday, a big front blew in and we sat through 36 hours of 25-30 knot winds.  By Thursday, winds were still 15-20 out of the NW and we were pinned down.  fortunately, our ground tackle was in solid and we stayed on the boat and coped.  Finally, this morning the winds lightened up and we are forecast for several days of light N winds.  Chris Parker said we may even have up to a week of settled weather!  So we are on the move.  We pulled anchor this morning at 9 and threaded our way back out of the anchorage.  We are headed to Staniel Cay for a quick trip to Isles General Store(the mail boat came in this morning and brought some fresh stuff).  We'll then head for Black Point for a quick trip into Lorraines for some home-made bread.  Then probably anchor south of Great Guana Cay for tonight(Fri).  Saturday we'll get to Little Farmer's Cay for a stay Sat night.  Then we'll go on the outside(the sound) to make the 35 mile run to Elizabeth Harbor to hang out in George Town for a while.  Carryn has been on me to prepare blogs so when we got an internet connection, I could just load them up.  But I didn't listen and obey, so I don't have alot of details about what we have been up to this past week.  Instead, I'll post a few pics.