Roll. Slam! Roll. Slam! We left Charleston with a favorable current and raised sail in the harbor. It was gustier than the forecast called for, but it was generally beautiful sailing. (Jack strongly disagreed.) We reached the harbor entrance just after the Charleston Race Week pursuit race start, and we joked that we can now […]
We got to St. Johns Yacht Harbor about an hour after slack and had no problem getting into our slip. Since we got in early enough, we took a cab over to Lewis BBQ for lunch. It was packed but so worth the wait. Afterwards, we walked around Charleston and ended the day with dinner […]
Our goal for the remainder of the week was to make as much distance north as possible, with the hope of ending up in Charleston. The first day back on the ICW was such a contrast to open ocean sailing, and it was strange to be back on murky brown waters and dealing with so […]
With final weather checks completed, a float plan filed and confirmation that the Iridium GO! was working, we cast off the lines around 2230. A friend we’d met the night before happened to be walking down the dock and gave us a hand with our lines and waved us off. Slipping away in the dead […]
We hauled anchor and were treated to another perfect early morning sail – our last in the Bahamas – and it was truly bittersweet. Conditions were perfect, something we’ve become accustomed to in our time sailing the Sea of Abaco. Silent Sky was just flying downwind and she felt great. But it was hard to completely […]
Another beautiful, early morning departure had us heading back to Hope Town before work. We decided to anchor out by Firefly for a couple nights before heading back into Hope Town Harbor. We were in need of a Tuesday morning trash run and we stopped in at the fuel dock to get gas for Squall, […]
The nice thing about our decision to stay in the Abacos this winter is that it’s been really easy for us to make quick hops back and forth between the islands. We left Marsh Harbour a little later than we’d planned since we needed to pay our slip fees, so we ended up dropping the […]
After Tahiti Beach, we went back to Hope Town Harbor. The mooring field was full, but Will on Aventura, the de facto “mayor of the harbor” told us about the bike shop moorings. I had wondered about the white-topped moorings just past the Hope Town Inn, and it turns out that the bike shop rents […]
Lori and Paul’s daughter and her fiancé were visiting, so we planned to meet up at Tahiti Beach. We had a stunning sail over from Mermaid Reef – single reefed main, double reefed jib, rocketing along at 6.5kts over ground. It was the kind of sailing where it’s just a joy to be at the […]
Sailing first thing in the morning is my absolute favorite way to start the day, and we had a beautiful jib-only sail to John Cash Point, just off of Marsh Harbour. This area was hardest-hit by Dorian, and there were a lot of once-beautiful homes and probably resorts that remain in ruins. But like elsewhere […]