Well, it’s been over a year since my last posting so this will be a little lengthy. 2013 became a very busy year at work and just could not get away to spend time on Rita. I know I said in the previous blog we would spend our summer cruising the Carolina coast but it just wasn’t in the cards. We did however spend two great weeks in June in the Abacos. We and two other families flew into Marsh Harbour, rented a boat and headed over to the Firefly Resort on Elbow Cay. They had free dockage for our 26’ center console, 2 pools, a great restaurant /bar and first class accommodations. We all had a great time in Hopetown and visited Nipper’s and Grabbers on Guana Cay and Pete’s Pub at Little Harbour. At the end of the first week we dropped off our family and guests in Marsh Harbour for their return flight home. We traded the 26’ boat for a 22’ and headed to Treasure Cay for a one night stay. I wanted to check out the marina and surroundings for our return trip on “Rita” in the near future. It seemed to be a nice marina with good protection from the wind and also had pool and bar close by. The next morning we headed to Green Turtle Cay where we had a private slip next to the Bluff House marina and a 1 bedroom villa on the hill overlooking the sea of Abaco. We spent the next five days just relaxing on this lovely cay and taking in the restaurants, beaches, bars and pools. We hated to bring this to an end but it was time to return home. We headed back to Marsh Harbour to spend our last night at one of our favorite places, The Lofty Fig. Cid is the proprietor of this great little place and keeps it in tip top shape for all of his guests.
Our only other adventure for the rest of 2013 and the beginning of 2014 was taking “Rita” back to Rockville for more upgrades and some new paint.
