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…
Bahamas
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…