On May 3, 2021 we departed Sint Maartin for Great Inagua in the Bahamas along with Lori and Brian on Never Forever who had never been in the islands. Within hours of departure our autohelm linear drive motor failed so we were forced to hand steer Skylark overnight and briefly stop in St Thomas. Fortunately we had purchased a new linear drive having heard how often autohelm components fail. A quick install of the new linear drive had us back on track for the Bahamas.
View of Skylark from the masthead.
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A must see destination on Long Island is Deans Blue Hole
which we had visited in 2014 while cruising on Kuivato. It was a spiritual
experience and we were anxious to show it to Lori and Brian. However, this time
around we were appalled by all of the trash on the surrounding beach as well as small plastic bags and plastic bits floating in the water throughout the blue hole. So disappointing. We
did our part to do some cleanup and filled a trash bag with garbage found on
the beach. We were told the small plastic bags had contained water sent to Haiti from the United State's as part the earthquake relief supplies. Now the bags are plastic trash along Bahamian shorelines. |
Skylark under sail as seen from Never Forever |
The crew of Skylark looking very happy. Thanks
to Brian on Never Forever for the picture. |
