Preparing for a Cold Front
George Town, Exumas, Bahamas - Moving from Kidd’s Cove Anchorage near town to Sand Dollar Beach Anchorage.
There is a cold front in the forecast, and the winds will be coming from the Northeast. We finished provisioning, got propane in one of our tanks (thank you, Brandon!), and filled our aft water tank and part of our forward tank.
The propane can be different everywhere we go in the Bahamas. Here in George Town, there are a couple of places you might go and get it filled, but the cheapest and most popular way is to wait for the guy that has the propane truck to show up by the Farmer’s Market each Wednesday at noon. Every morning, there’s the Cruisers Net on VHF channel 72 at 8am. There was an announcement that the truck wouldn’t arrive until Thursday, so we had to plan our fill time for then. In our case, Chris was in the middle of calls, but Brandon was planning to fill his propane tank, so it worked out for him to fill ours too. Thankfully he got there early and was second in line!
Getting the propane tanks filled in George Town, Grand Exuma, Bahamas!
📸 Photos by Brandon Keepers
Brandon took our tank with him and was second in line. Phew!
📸 Photos by Brandon Keepers
Filling our water can also be a different experience in the Bahamas. Here, there is a free RO (Reverse Osmosis) water spigot at the grocery store’s dinghy dock, so all the cruisers can refill there. We use two 5-gallon flexible jugs when we have to fill this way. It takes a lot of dinghy runs to fill our huge tanks, but without a watermaker on our boat, it’s how we get it done! Thankfully, our friends on SV Ada also loaned us their 5-gallon jug to help speed the process along.
Ewan helps fill the flexible jugs with RO water from the grocery store’s dinghy dock. It’s incredibly nice that they offer this water for free here; water is almost never free in the Bahamas!
During one of the runs, we also swung into the grocery store for a few provisions and dropped off our bag of trash. Most islands have to burn their trash, so there is usually a collection spot to drop off your trash and pay a fee for them to take care of it for you. This tiny truck was the trash drop off here!
The cutest, itty-bitty trash truck on the island!
Once all the runs to land were done, we moved the boat to a better anchorage and dropped anchor before the sun set, and we parked next to our friends on SV Ada!
