What a good call!! We are thrilled to be here!

We slept soundly for over five hours after a wonderful shower and a light sandwich and we feel good. We were planing to celebrate grilling some steaks but it looks too windy to cook out.
Of the 320 miles we did the worst were the last two hours over the banks from French Cay to Sapodilla. The winds were over 22, on a very close heading but we zoomed through with water that never went below 9 feet under our keel except at the anchorage. We anchored and it was still sunny and managed to get everything in place with no hurry. After one it started to rain on and off and it's been blowing non stop. We sailed a lot of the way yesterday and as soon as the sun went down we took two reefs on the main, while it was still comfortable and it was another good call. As the winds started to pick up we closed the jib and did most of the night with the reefed main and the stay sail. We turned the engine on mostly to warn off the whales I have to confess. The engined did not leak and the autopilot worked like a charm. We managed to sleep on and off during the night. Last night I was up the greater part of the night, which was good because Juan was able to do the last two hours which were the only ones that made us work harder and we did not want to leave it to the auto pilot. Under way Juan was even able to go down to the "engine room" and change one of the screws that had been loose and fell.
Choosing to go all the way to French Cay was another good call because this morning when we got to the banks we were only 13 miles away from Sapodilla through a clear route with plenty of water.
We have done a third of the way to Miami with these two overnights. Now we have to stay put until Monday.
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