By Kevin

On January 18th, we departed the beautiful, protected waters of Warderick Wells mooring field and headed southeast, destination PIGS! We were heading out to see the wild pigs that are reported to live on Big Majors Spot, a small island 20 miles away.

As has been our routine, we left Warderick Wells at 8:07 A.M. and this day motorsailed under main and staysail. Our freshwater was running low, so we ran our engine at 1500 RPMs during the sail in order to make 30 to 40 gallons via our reverse osmosis watermaker (a nice modular unit made by VillageMarineTec).

We took the route along the banks, west of the Exuma island chain. This is the shallower and more sheltered water–much nicer sailing. The only drawback is that the fishing is not quite as good as on the Exuma Sound route, which lies east of the island chain, in deep water.

There was a nasty storm front blowing in from the north/northeast that we were trying to beat to Big Majors Spot and we could definitely see some gnarly squalls out in the Exuma Sound, on the other side of the islands. So, we were happy with our choice of route, especially because Jennifer likes to stay dry.

We dropped anchor at 12:05 P.M. averaging about 5 knots on the trip. Good job, Zach! (who learned to drive the boat on this trip).