We took our time sailing back up the west coast of Eleuthera. Sally did sll the piloting snd navigating while I trimmed sails and chose the music.

From Rock Sound we sailed an easy reach to Tarpum Bay while listening to Leo Brower, Lester Bowie, the MJQ and Ahmad Jamal. This was my first to Tarpum Bay and we both liked it. It's a justifiably proud and particularly friendly settlement, winners of the past five junanoo competitions on Eleuthera.

The following morning we sailed the 14 miles to Governor's Harbour in lighter air - a day for Django Reinhardt, the Buena Vista Social Club and Jin Hall. Having written about Governor's Harbour earlier this winter, and not wanting to repeat myself, I'll just report that we took advantage of the book exchange at the library, walked to the pink sand beach on the ocean side, but decided to postpone the two mile walk to the Levy Plant Preserve for another year.

With increasingly lighter winds, we motor sailed to Alabaster Bay along with a two CD volume of Chuck Berry playing his own tunes. We were pleased to see no sign, yet, of any attack on Coco di Mama by the new Marriott owners. So far they're just letting it sit idle. Such a waste.

It's already uncomfortably hot here for us northerners. Those who choose to come here in March and April are a different breed. We're glad to be heading north toward cooler weather.

We used some light south winds to motor sail to Current Cut. Had we just sailed, always preferable when possible, we would have faced the worst of the flood current racing against us through the appropriately named cut. Once through, we sailed slowly the rest of the way to Meek's Patch where we found another Pacific Seacraft 40 we've been encountering here and there since Florida.

We had planned to sail north to the Abacos on Wednesday (today) with good winds but an updated forecast with the threat of 40 knot squalls tonight convinced us to go a day early in light air. We motored out past Egg Island in a flat calm but were able to motor sail in the afternoon with a light southwesterly. It would have been a good day for some Wynonie Harris or Louis Jordan but we spent the day reading instead. As the sun was dropping behind Great Abaco, we were dropping the anchor onto a patch of sand off Lynyard Cay.

This morning we found another flat calm and motored around Channel Cay to Buckaroon Bay where we'll have good protection from the strong SW and W winds tonight and tomorrow. As I type this, we still are in "da cahm befoe da blow" but it shoiuld start kicking up a rumpus this afternoon.