Damage report 26◦46'.618N 77◦20'.208W

We made it through the 'Whale passage' but not without some non-human casualties. We entered the passage around 10am and were greeted by 6 to 8 foot waves, however about ½ hour in, we were hit by a 10 foot wave that caused bigger rocking than we have ever experienced. We prepared for this trip, tying everything down and taping drawers shut, but our preparations where not enough.

Things that never moved before, went flying this time.

Jim stuffed a coat in our dishes cabinet in anticipation of some rocking and rolling, but even that was not enough. When I opened the cupboard I was greeted with falling dishes, most of them broken.  

Our coffee whitener fell off the shelf and of course it broke open. White powder everywhere. Cabinets flew open, bottles fell out. One drawer actually broke. Our knife block; which is wedged in beside the microwave; went flying. 

We had some cards in the helm, and the deck fell out its shelf and down the stair case; resulting in an unwanted game of 52 pickup.

Five gallon oil pails fell over in the engine room but thankfully, they did not break open.

On the top deck, our patio table; which was tied down; actually jumped up and then flipped over; Taking the chairs with it.  

In our preparations, I did forget to close the port hole (window) in our bathroom and we got flooded in there. I could have rung out the toilet paper from the water. All of this in a short 2hr run. Thank god this was not one of our 8hr crossings! 

When we arrived in Green Turtle Cay we grabbed a mooring ball and Jim set out to go BBQ some hot dogs (don't judge us). Then the strangest thing occurred.  Jim called out "honey, what did you do with the grills for the BBQ"  I replied  "What? Nothing! Why?" "cause they are missing is why"

The BBQ was tied down of course, the lid was down, it had rocked some but our grills are heavy cast iron grills, I can barely lift them, surely to god they can't just jump out of the BBQ. Well apparently I was wrong, they can jump out and they did jump out because we now have a BBQ without any grills! Imagine that! The top rack did stay on, so Jim just flipped it over and laid it across our BBQ to grill our lunch. 

It's a small grill, but it works 

Anyway we are now safe and sound and tied to a mooring ball. Apparently the winds are light tomorrow, but pick up again on Wednesday. Since our next leg has us in open, albeit non-ocean waters for 2 days. It looks as though we will be stuck here for the next 3 days waiting on some favorable winds and waves. Lucky for us, since we never got to explore Green Turtle Cay when we were here last time. I must say good night now, as I still have some cleaning to do. 

PS It's my sister-in-law Carole's B-day tomorrow, So I will wish you a happy B-day now; In case you read the Blog in the am.