Well of course he does with me:).

And he’s made many cuts over the years with all his sports and coaching endeavors.

But today he made the cut through Farmers Cay, from the Bahamas Banks to the Exuma Sound side.

But it was a little dicey for sure. We left Black Point around 8 am and headed toward Farmers Cay, not knowing if we would stay there tonight or keep going. The winds were moderate and favorable today to sail some, and by Saturday they were supposed to get pretty strong.

So we knew wherever we got over the next couple of days we might have to stay there for a week and wait out the winds.

So after a good sail in the morning we decided to keep on trucking out toward the Sound.

Approaching Farmers Cay Cut we knew it was slack tide but the cuts can be treacherous with competing wind and currents.

Ed managed the approach past the White House on Dubba Hill (that was our 90 degree landmark according to the book).

The water looked shallow and our depth alarm confirmed that when it started going off at 5 feet, steadily down to 3.8 feet over a period of a scary five minutes.

We have a shallow draft boat, and we still had a five inch clearance at that point. But Yikes. They say everyone runs aground at some point here but we weren’t anxious to be in that statistic today.

Then the waters going into the cut got deeper and swirled around us. After about 10 minutes we made it out into deeper waters of the sound, rocking and rolling but deep.

We were going to anchor out but decided to continue to a Georgetown marina – Emerald Bay -for New Years.

It will be a long 8 hour day.

But they’ll have champagne there won’t they?

Happy New Year!