It was incredibly bittersweet to leave Green Turtle after making it our home for over a month. We even had a dog friend who adopted us and joined us for our morning walks at Gillam Bay. We started to see the same people over and over, and we started to get to know some of […]
This past weekend was too windy to go anywhere, so we found ourselves with yet another lazy weekend. Saturday was so windy, we barely left the boat even though we were on the dock – we were getting blown off the dock so hard it was tough to get the boat in close enough to […]
We’ve been on Green Turtle Cay for almost a month now, and it’s almost time to move on (we were supposed to leave this weekend but big winds will keep us here a little longer). It hasn’t taken me long at all to fall in love with this little island. The people here are so […]
So far, our favorite spot in the Abacos is Manjack Cay, which is only three miles from Green Turtle. We’ve visited twice – the first time, we had hoped to spend the night, but a storm was supposed to blow through, and at the last minute we thought better of staying. There’s a really cool […]
We decided to spend a month on Green Turtle Cay, working during the week and making weekend hops to nearby cays as wind/weather allows. We got a mooring at Donny’s Marina in Black Sound – a slip would be twice as expensive and power was limited to 20 amps, meaning we wouldn’t be able to […]
One of the things we’ve been most surprised at on this trip is how little sailing we’ve been able to do. There are very few spots along the ICW that can be sailed, and when we’ve headed offshore, there were many times we either needed to make time upwind or the wind was too light. […]
We arrived at the uninhabited Allan-Pensacola Cay mid-afternoon. Again, we’d heard this was a really popular anchorage, but there was only one other boat when we arrived, and over our two days here, there were only ever three other boats anchored with us at a time. We launched Squall so we could explore the island. […]
We sailed off the anchor this morning, making about as much leeway as headway between the current and almost non-existent breeze, but it was nice to just sail for a little bit. After a half hour with no wind filling in, we gave up and awoke Puff (our nickname for our engine) from his slumber […]
We left Old Bahama Bay, and our first experience reading Bahamian waters was a bit of trial by fire. We had two good sets of charts on hand – the Explorer charts on my phone and our Navionics charts which had been confirmed as accurate for the Indian Rocks Passage – but it was still […]
We were on the customs dock in Old Bahama Bay, West End, Grand Bahama at 7:30 am and got everything in order. Chris went ashore to clear in with Customs once they opened, and I restored order to the inevitable disarray of an offshore passage. I was so excited, but I didn’t dare text anyone […]