Safe Harbor

     Round two (strong cold front) appears to be in the making somewhere to the north and/or west of us.  According to the weather gurus, the next cold front to drop in on the Bahamas is 7 maybe 8 days away according to yesterday's predictions.  Realizing the time frame and the vast enormity of variables, for example mother nature changing her mind, the predictions are for a sustained influence (days) of weather from the W, NW and N.  In the above weather map, to the trained eye, is the bad boy that will be effecting the changes this weekend in the south Bahamas.  They, the weather gurus, are predicting light/strong winds for many days but the exact number of days has yet to be determined.  About the only thing that really catches our attention is the direction of the wind, anything from the S clocking through to N and the wind speeds.  So, once again, as with the previous blow, we'll be making the necessary preparations and moving the boat about 2 miles to the north into Thompson Bay.  After the previous blow last weekend, we had moved the boat back down to Salt Pond because yours truly was not happy with our anchor set in the west side of Thompson Bay when the winds shifted back to the east, and we were faced with a lot of fetch out of the east.  As we move the boat to Thompson Bay we will be looking to anchor in the eastern section of the bay where the bottom has a little more bite.  Our moving of the boat today may sound a little premature of a blow 6 days from now, but you would be surprised how many boats will come to Thompson Bay because of the protection it offers.  On the west side of Long Island, Thompson Bay may be the only safe harbor.