winlink 4 March

I am much refreshed. I did stuff, like clean the bilge, yesterday, stuff that wasn't much fun, because nothing would have been fun yesterday. It was a hard night the night before. But this morning I am back to having fun. Donno what quite yet.
  Abraham's Bay is about 2 miles wide x 5 miles long, and separated from the ocean on two sides by a reef just below the surface. (I am sure you can see it on Spot.) which means there is always residual ocean wave surge. The south-east wind comes across the reef, then starts building wind chop across the 2 mile width. So the best anchorage is just behind the reef close to the ocean, two miles from land. Can't see the reef, so the effect is that I am anchored in the ocean, without the waves. Or rather a light chop and small swells. This a good harbour of refuge. The entrance is wide and deep and can anchor almost anywhere in sand.
  Wind tonight seems to be 8 to 16 kts. I have 48nm to the Caicos banks. I want it to be an easy passage. Bashing I can make 4.5 kts. I am going to plan on 3.5 average kts and hope I don't have to bash to get it. The last 10 miles getting here... whenever it was...yesterday morning, I was bashing, and only going 2.0-2.5 kts. I guess that is what 20kts on the nose does. maybe not dangerous, or even uncomfortable, just can not make progress. You just stay in one place and bash.
  Think I will read Rite I, then mend-n-make.