It was
getting time to head north so we said goodbye to our Long Island friends. As we started to make our way it became
obvious that our auto pilot had again, gone on the blink. This is what the hydraulic fluid looked like!
We made
it back to Eleuthera hand steering and while emailing back & forth with
Garmin and the company in England who actually made the part we decided to rent
a car & do some exploring at & near Cape Eleuthera.
We had
to cancel plans with our Bahamian friends Josh & Carol and leave. we ended up hand steering with a very dirty
boat bottom (diver was a no show) all the way back to the U.S. Not fun
This was
our shortest stay in the Bahamas since we started in 2002! We will try to make up for it during the
2017/2018 season!