Turks & Caicos

After sailing over the Crooked Islands, between the Plana Cays and below Mayaguana and above Inagua, we were going to make the the crossing of the Caicos Bank, when I saw fraying in the forward baby stay. Obviously when rigging is fraying immediate steps need to be made to repair the rigging. Fraying was possibly exacerbated by strong winds we had been sailing in for the last 2 days. We continued on our N'ly tack (rather than continuing south to the Dominican Republic) to make the closest port of call in the Turks & Caicos islands. We made Sapodilla Bay before nightfall where we anchored protected from the strong Easterlies. Following morning we moved the boat on the high tide to a shallow Marina, 6 miles east so work could be done to jury rig a repair to the baby stay with some local support from the Shipyard. All done we enjoyed some local drinks cuisine and saw some of the sights on the island. Tomorrow we depart at high tide, back for our original destination, although we will be taking a northly route, above Turks  Caicos and out into the Deep Atlantic, in order to avoid the strong winds that are associated with the low pressure that is sitting on the Dominican Republic, for the calmer winds of the high pressure in the North Atlantic. We will stay at deep sea for 2 days before making a tack back directly towards Puerto Rico, and hopefully missing the worst of the strong easterlies and associated thunderstorms. In other words, Freebooter once again is stormrunning.