I Flew into Freeport on Saturday May 23rd, Jack and George were waiting in the airport. Been looking forward to some really good Bahamas seafood, so where do they take me for my first official Bahamas meal? Burger King, go figure. Sunday we sailed from Freeport to Westend. The wind were picking up and so we sailed under a reefed main. We were trolling and caught one jack. Since the winds were still kicking up on Monday, we stayed put at the marina in Westend. We also ran into the other boats from the Bahamas flotilla. George Thorpe and Jerry in a very small Southcaost 23 and Doug and Mo in a C25. Sunday night at the marina we had a mystery. They found a 35 plus sailboat drifting out in the ocean with no one aboard. We heard that the delivery skipper was missing. The boat had no sails on it and the anchor on the bow looked to be only about a 10 pound anchor. I am really not sure about the official report. Also a small boat capsized with four people on board, they recovered three bodies and were still looking for the forth. Jack was right in the middle of it all trying to figure out what had happen. He finally went to the police station on Monday to get an update. Since winds were scheduled to 10-15 mph latter in the day on Tuesday, Jack and I set out for Mangrove Cay. We said our good-byes to the others, as they were planning to cross the Gulf Stream that night. We had a good sail, with winds right on the nose all the way to Mangrove Cay and we finally reached our anchorage at about 5 PM. Winds were still 20 mph and gusting higher. We were hoping the others would wait an extra day to make their crossing, they didn’t. We checked the weather and the winds were expected to start dying down latter in the night. By morning the winds were still out of the east at about 15 mph. We weight anchor at about 7 AM on Wednesday and started our direct sail to Brunswick. We set the auto pilot and we fish, We manage to catch 13 barracudas ranging in size from 2 to 4 feet. We also caught two yellow tail snappers. We clean and ate the snappers for dinner on Wednesday. We set our course to a place called Deadmans Shoals on the northern end on the Little Bahamas Bank. When we were a couple of miles from it, you could see the color of the water was the most beautiful shade of turquoise, I have ever seen. It stretched for miles. We manage to make 146 miles for our first full day of sailing. In the Gulf Stream our top speed was 10 mph. The second day we manage to make 130 miles. We reached the docks at Brunswick on Friday May 30 at 12 noon. We sailed a little over 300 miles from Mangrove to Brunswick and never tacked one time. We sailed for 53 hours, of those 53 hours we motored sailed about 10 hours. When we were sailing we were constantly sailing at 5.5 to 6.5 mph. We never touched the wheel from the time we left Mangrove Cay until we were in sight of the docks a Brunswick. Take a ways from the trip. Autopilot………………………………Do not leave home without it. Bahamas……………………………..I love it, I want some more of it.