Magnificent Weather! The front comes through….
We left Nassau on predictions of a Thursday/Friday frontal system coming through. Thursday morning weather (via Charlie in New Orleans), predicted winds of 40 and 45 overnight. Richard and Virginia had warned us to pick a spot to wait out the fronts. We picked Norman’s Cay Pond for the Christmas front and are here in Royal Island for this one.
While the day was blowing in the high teens and gusting to 24, at 10:00 P.M. we were treated to a magnificent spectacle. Winds of 30 gusting to 40 with lightening far off to the North. By 11:00 we had winds of 40 gusting to 45 with a pelting rain and our own lightening. Subsided at a 30 knot rainstorm, but back with a vengeance at 3:00 A.M. So the front passes through.
Learned that Messenger dragged anchor at 9:00 P.M. just as it really started to pick up. Managed to move and re-secure for the worst of the storm.
This was one CRAZY storm – the most intense I can recall aboard Endurance…loud, howling wind, driving rain, crashing thunder and blinding lightening. We were tucked up closer toward the end of the pond, but we were dancing on that anchor!
Welcome to the Bahamas….
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