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…
Travel
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…
St. Croix
Nearly two weeks ago we made the 30 or so mile sail south to St Croix for a few days before we departed the US Virgin Islands. We had been waiting for a time with settled weather as there are few…
Highlights of St John
Since my last post we have pretty much finished up our tour of St Thomas and St John, but seeing as the better anchorages are in St John, lets focus on those. We finally made it into Coral Bay and…
US Virgins with our First Island Visitors
About two weeks ago were in Sopers Hole for Magnus to get yet another rabies shot and health certificate so that he would be all set for the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. While we were there we briefly…
BVI Wrap Up
After nearly 2 months in the British Virgin Islands we have seen most of the islands and many of the anchorages. There are a few that I would still like to do, but some are better suited to the summer…