Burntside Adventures: Rock Sound-Davis Harbor and troubles

The past several days have been trying, but we have had some fun as well. When we were in Spanish Wells, we went to town, ate lunch and toured the area by foot. We then left that anchorage, moved a couple of miles behind Meeks Patch, an island that gave us some lee from the west wind and put the hook down with a dozen other boats. I went for a paddle and on returning, a guy in a dinghy approached our boat, informing us he was organizing an impromptu happy hour on the beach at 430. 430 ccame and we debated whether or not to go, but went anway. While chit chatting with a half dozen folks, another dinghy beached and a woman got out with her little dog, walked up the beach to us and just stood there with her mouth open saying OMG. It was John and Sue Wavrin. Serendipity has ruled on this trip. We talked to them for half an hour, finished our toddies, and went back to the boat. We pulled out the next morning to Rock Sound, 50 miles to the south, negotiated the infamous Current Cut with no issues, 2 hours past Nassau high tide, and in the afternoon anchored in Rock Sound. The next day, went to tour this hamlet, looked for a float switch for our shower sump without success, went for a beer and that's when our troubles began. After sipping a beer, we got back in the dinghy and a sailboater came in with his dinghy, not yielding any space, and we ended up hitting a rock with the motor. Well things were bad. We were a mile from the boat with a motor that didn't work and the wind agaist us. A couple more sailboaters were pretty unhelpful, laughing and telling us it looked like we were having a bad day. No shit. No offer to help. We started to row/paddle back to the boat, and while struggling, a power boat couple came out and gave us a tow back to the mothership. The next day, I did my best to tear the lower unit apart, but it was pretty clear it wasn't going to work. A dinghy is pretty critical. We were feeling pretty low, pulled out for Davis Harbor 25 miles south, where we stayed a year ago for a couple of days. On arrival, still in the turning basin, a voice yelled out, "nice boat". It was another Krogen owner, had a 48 that he and his wife stay on all winter, in this area. After docking, he came over and we talked for an hour. He and his wife are fom Stillwater, and were next door neighbors to David and Judith Adolfson. More serendipity. Anyway, he new a reliable local guy who worked on Yamaha engines exclusively. He took ours and confirmed the lower unit was toast, and arranged to help us get a replacement, which will arrive Tuesday morning we hope. In the mean time, our shore access is the kayak, which I am sure glad we bought. I changed generator oil yesterday and today we are going to pull out and anchor down island 20-30 miles, then return Tuesday to pick up th new motor.