David Copperfield's Piano

Reminders;  Click pictures to enlarge and click Spot Tracker (to right) to follow our route.

Piano with mermaid awaiting Carol to play

We entered the Rudder Cut on Sunday and anchored behind Rudder Cut Cay with one goal in mind.  David Copperfield, the renowned magician submerged a life size, stainless steel sculpture of a mermaid sitting on the bench of a baby grand piano in 2011.  The piano and bench is hidden about 12 to 15 feet below the surface and looks like another coral rock from the surface.  However, there is an orange buoy marking the area.  Before leaving Texas, I determined I would find the piano and surprise my sister with pictures/videos.  Carol, is a gifted pianist with perfect pitch.  She started playing when she was 4 years old and now plays for churches and bands in Austin.  Our goal was to find the piano and take pictures. ✅✅  Enjoy Carol! We have plenty more videos to share later.

Ruth and Val practicing social distance

While snorkeling the piano on Sunday evening, we noticed a Lagoon 38 sailing into the channel.  It turned out to be our good friends Valerie and Menno aboard Eyra.  We met them first in Bimini in early January awaiting a blow, then buddy boated with them to Nassau.  We later met again in George Town.  They left before us for Long Island then spent time at Cat Island, so it’s good to catch up with them again.  This morning Val contacted Ruth inviting us to meet them at a beach with many treasures.  We dinghied into Rudder Cay Harbor, which is believed to have been a lay down yard for some of David Copperfield’s buildings.  We walked to the windward side of the island which is very remote.  There treasures of sea glass and other items were found.  Ruth also found a complete blue bottle she is quite fond of.  We returned to the dinghies anchored in the harbor and walked its beaches finding numerous live conch.  Only one mature conch was kept.   

Ruth is quite fond of her found blue bottle

Spelunking near our anchorage

We plan to leave the beautiful Rudder Cut Cay at high tide tomorrow morning.  We’ll travel the shallow route (VPR), west (leeward) of the cays.  Some areas along the route have water as shallow as 4.5 feet, mean low tide, but we should be fine leaving at high tide with our 5.2 foot draft, because tides are typically 3 feet.  Once we clear the shallow route we’ll enter the banks where we’ll hoist the sails to Black Point Settlement.   At Black Point we’ll top off the water tanks and wash clothes.