Well, yesterday was interesting. I made two decisions, one good, one not so good, and learned a ton. We pulled out of our nice safe anchorage west side of Cat Cay, rounded the corner on the entrance to the bank a mile north and things looked pretty do-able. Some waves on the bow, a couple of feet. All looked good and decided to go ahead - bad decision. It was shallow, 6-8 feet. We proceeded for 8 miles or so, depth increased to 12-16 feet, and with the increase in depth, the waves doubled in size, the boat was doing well, but the passengers came to the conclusion that this wasn't really much fun, pretty rough ride. Decided to turn back 13 miles into the crossing. Good decision. I also learned the ride in bigger waves is pretty tolerable in this boat going with them, but bucking them head on, not so nice. Anyway, we spent 6 hours out and back and trolled a line, got broke off by something I never saw. Once back in the lee of Cat Cay, we looked at different anchorages, all of them pretty rolly, so came back the the original spot which was flat and comfortable. Right now it looks like we can try again tomorrow. It is supposed to lay down with winds ESE at 10-13 rather than 18+ and all of next week looks flat. Boy would that be a switch.

The light house at the Cat Cay entrance to the Great Bahama Bank