Leg 1 – Bahamas to Beaufort NC
We had a successful first leg north from the Bahamas covering some 480 miles in 82 hours to Beaufort, NC. We generally had gentle 10-12 knot winds on the stern allowing us to carry full sail for the first…
Back to Canada
It seems hard to believe, but we are just 6 days short of having spent 6 months in the islands and now we are about to point north. We had been hoping to make Cape Breton by the end of…
An Abbreviated Tour of the Abacos
Our tour of the Bahamas is now wrapping up and we’ve spent the past week in the Abacos, the northern most chain of islands. We have only seen a small portion of the Abacos but we are glad we did…
Photo Roll from Eleuthera
Here is a photo roll from our recent tour up the island of Eleuthera before we jumped north the Abacos. First stop was Rock Sound Harbour, a nice little town. A tidy vacation house for those that don’t want visit…
The Exumas
When we left Georgetown we sailed north along the Atlantic side of the Exumas up to Rudder Cut Cay where we navigated our first cut on to the Exuma bank. Our interpretation of the timing for slack tidal current proved…
Long Island and Chicken Harbour
Internet access has been limited lately so here is the first of a couple posts to come on the Bahamas to catch up. A few days before Easter weekend we set sail from Mayaguana along with our friends from Laho and…
The Whisker Pole (Mona) Passage
This past week we departed from Puerto Real on the western shores of Puerto Rico for our second longest passage on our journey. We sailed across the well known Mona Passage that extends between the Turks and Caicos along the…
South Shore of Puerto Rico
In the past week we have travelled the southern coast of Puerto Rico and are now tucked away in Puerto Real on the West coast where we are taking care of a big reprovisioning and a few other details to…
No Shortage of Excitement
When you go sailing, there is always some form of unplanned excitement or incident and lately we’ve been having our share. Here are our accounts of a boat adrift, a near miss, and a capsized dinghy. A couple of weeks ago we…
Culebra
While I know I wont get much sympathy from those who have endured another harsh winter back home, but a few weeks ago I was getting bored with cruising. We were here living in paradise, but yet the excitement had…