Oh what a night!

And what a morning. The wind clocked more to the South and our anchorage rolly as it was, protected us only from the East. As it veered not only did it leave us on a lee shore (if we dragged we would be pushed ashore with the obvious atrocious consequences) but the roll became unbearable, 3 foot waves. So we took off as fast as we could. Everything becomes difficult with that roll, getting the outboard, the dinghy, putting everything in place, but we did it.
No sooner had we cleared the tip of the reefs and started to turn we heard a loud bang. Juan went down and saw water in the bilge so he made me turn around.
Our water tank is made of metal and it sometimes makes loud bangs when the air pressure mounts (I won't get into the gory details) but it did it again as Juan was down so he started looking at the water line and found the bathroom faucet was leaking, well not just leaking and we had the water pressure pump on: because of the noise of the engine we did not notice the noise of the pump. It was like we had an open faucet into the bilge.
Once we discovered that I turned around once more, happy to leave the Crooked Islands behind.
The wind is coming from the SE,exactly on our heading, but it's no more than 10 to 12. The waves are 3 to 5, coming also from the SE. But we are moving, hoping that the wind will in fact clock to the West as forecast so that we can sail. If all goes well, tomorrow at this time we should be entering Providenciales in Turks and Caicos. Everybody please keep their fingers crossed.
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