The day started with a muted but beautiful sunrise, and we hauled anchor around 0830. We had a warm, sunny day but barely any wind so we found ourselves motoring most of the way up the Sea of Abaco. I would have loved to be able to stop at Allans-Pensacola or Powell Cay, but there […]
It’s finally time to cast off the lines, and I’m sad that another incredible cruising season has come to a close. Spend enough time in a place, and it’s amazing how deeply it touches you, changes you, invites you to grow. Letting the lines slip is hard – you feel the pull of the place […]
We left Man-o-War pretty early in hopes of getting in some sailing before we dropped anchor to snorkel Mermaid Reef and wait for the tide to rise. We sailed about halfway there before deciding it would be better to just get fuel and get into our slip – the afternoon weather was forecast to deteriorate […]
Man-o-War was a favorite of ours last year, and I looked forward to seeing how the island had changed. As with everywhere else, there were far more boats, both at anchor and in the more protected inner mooring field. Marina reconstruction has progressed well, and it looks like they’ll be ready to start taking boats […]
In all our time in the Abacos this year and last, Great Guana was one of the places we didn’t really get to explore. We spent a day anchored in Fishers Bay and came over with Chris’s parents last year, but both visits were brief and we only got to see Nippers and Grabbers. We […]
We got up just before dawn so we could leave our beloved Hope Town before the tide got too low to leave and anchored outside. We dinghied back in to take one last walk on our beach and visit the farmers market (I scored some delicious-looking mango jam and we bought donuts that we really […]
After a couple days on Lynyard, the wind shifted around making the anchorage rolly and uncomfortable, so we moved up to Tilloo Cay just off Tavern Cay. It was much more settled and put us that much closer to Hope Town, although with Windara’s draft, we could no longer pass between Lubbers Quarters and Tahiti […]
It felt good to put some miles under our keel again, and it was nice to return to a familiar place after exploring for the first half of our time in the Bahamas. Our friends on Minx (and their adorable cat, Peanut, @imaboatcat) were anchored at Lynyard, and it was great to catch up. We’d […]
After closely monitoring the weather, the forecast for big winds during the week moderated and Sunday looked like the perfect opportunity to head north in extremely light air. After returning from Harbour Island, we spent Saturday night anchored off Spanish Wells and got underway just before dawn. We had a gorgeous sunrise, and while we […]
Harbour Island is often called “Briland” by the locals (in the lilting Bahamian accent, “Harbour Island” is pronounced more like “Ar-br island, where the “br” is slurred into the “island”, hence “Briland”). It’s a short hop from Spanish Wells but in order to get here, you have to navigate the Devil’s Backbone, an infamously tricky […]