Lake Worth, Florida pulled anchor and headed east through Lake North inlet toward our first way point, between Chicken Hens and Great Isaal on the North West corner of the Great Bahama Bank. A 67nm distance. Moon full, wind less than 10 knots with a two to three foot ENE swell aft our beam. Could not ask for better conditions.
This would be our second try at starting our Carribean cruise. Two weeks earlier on our way to Bimini we found a leak in the port engine return fuel line from the fuel cooler filling our bilge with diesel. We continued on one engine to Bimini thinking we could easily get "rubber hose" replaced in this popular spot. We spent the night exploring our options. As the hose was not a standard part and required a special made fitting we would have to take it off send it to Florida or Freeport to have a new hose made a process that would take at least a week. As we also had problems with a new Simrad NSE-12 screen that had just been installed and had not yet worked out all of the programming issues on our new GOST security system, we decided to head back to Florida the next day, on one engine. This was the last passable day in this weather window. Saturday, December 6th the day we left, was the next.
This would be our second try at starting our Carribean cruise. Two weeks earlier on our way to Bimini we found a leak in the port engine return fuel line from the fuel cooler filling our bilge with diesel. We continued on one engine to Bimini thinking we could easily get "rubber hose" replaced in this popular spot. We spent the night exploring our options. As the hose was not a standard part and required a special made fitting we would have to take it off send it to Florida or Freeport to have a new hose made a process that would take at least a week. As we also had problems with a new Simrad NSE-12 screen that had just been installed and had not yet worked out all of the programming issues on our new GOST security system, we decided to head back to Florida the next day, on one engine. This was the last passable day in this weather window. Saturday, December 6th the day we left, was the next.
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