Day 168 - Konditer Meister — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 0, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $150 and electric $52, daily high temperature 73°f

Today was another beautiful day In paradise. It was very blowy on the east side of the island. Our marina is so sheltered by the high bluffs that we cannot feel the breeze. It is interesting that as we start to think we should be making a move the people that are coming into the marina have been battered by the waves and are glad to be here. We are making a good decision to stay put for a few days.

Priscilla and I rented a golf cart and took a tour of Highbourne Cay. It is a good thing we didn’t plan to take the bus.

The marina has several beaches that they maintain. You can order a bonfire. They use the teepee style with driftwood.

There are great views all around the island. With wind blowing 30 out of the east, there are nice big waves crashing on the shore.

It was a small world night. We had an organized docktail party with our dock mates. I met a fellow Northeastern University alumnus. Steve Saylor, who is a sailor from Massachusetts, got his EE at NU and started a night vision goggle business. He and his wife Pammy are cruising on “Solstice” their Sabre 40 sailboat for a few years. They will cruise to the Virgin Islands in the next few months. Pammy told a story about buying her wedding cake for her first marriage from Priscilla’s sister Rebecca’s bakery called Konditer Meister at their original location in Quincy, Massachusetts. She and her mother drove from Reading to sample and order the cake in 1986. She has two sisters that live on Nantucket and wants to help Rebecca with her start up business on Nantucket.

This is Pammy Saylor from Solstice

Craig and Day moved their boat over to Highbourne Cay today. Priscilla and I will visit them by dingy.

This is Toucan Deux anchored at at Highbourne Cay.

Bonus photo

Carl ( Chef ) Wooden – quote for the day

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!” – Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne – French: (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father’s footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).