Sailing vs. Motoring: Our sail to Cat Island
The sail from Georgetown to Cat Island was sporty, but so much fun! Come join us as we explore another island and tour the Hermitage, the highest elevation in all of the Bahamas!
Sailing During a Worldwide Pandemic
April 2020 Current Day. You think it’s hard being cooped up in your home, with only access to your yards and your car, where you have full size freezers, can only drive to secluded trails or parks, or to go shopping? You think this is “hard”, well, you aren’t wrong, but I’m inviting you to …
Eleuthera: Glass Window, Queen’s Bath, Current Cut, and Egg Island
I’ll say it again, some of the best anchorages we found were in Eleuthera. And one of the worst… Despite some high winds to the south east (14-18kts), we left the narrow harbor at Hatchet Bay and sailed north to the incredibly impressive Glass Window. To miss that would have been a travesty. After a …
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Eleuthera: Governor’s Harbor, Alabaster Bay, and Hatchet Bay
April 2, 2019 – April 5, 2019 Hot, humid, zero wind: this describes our sail north to Governor’s Harbor, which is on the border between Central and North Eleuthera (and interestingly runs vertical, not horizontal – go figure!) Some of my favorite anchorages throughout the Bahamas were here on the west coast of this beautiful …
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Rock Sound, Ten Bay, and Pineapple Cays, Eleuthera
March 24 – April 2, 2019 We were anchored in Eleuthera – which was founded by a group of puritans in search of religious freedom. In fact, the name of the island came from the Greek word “eleuthero/eleuthera” meaning free or freedom. Rock Sound, Eleuthera is a large, very well protected, anchorage near the south …
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Hiking, fishing, and lots of great sailing
March 17 – March 23, 2019 After 7 weeks in Georgetown with boats so close you could pass the sugar and hear their heads flush, it was time to leave! We had a decent weather window for the 52 nautical mile sail which would take about 10 hours to reach Cat Island. Leaving Georgetown with …
Georgetown, the Mafia of the Bahamas
March 17, 2019 The cast of Gilligan’s Island set out for a three-hour tour. The crew of Music & Lyrics set out to visit Georgetown for two-weeks. Both cast and crew were dead wrong about how long it would take to get off that island. Which is why I consider Georgetown the Mafia of the …
Hiding out in Emerald Bay…
January 25, 2019 8’ breaking swells, followed by 4-6’ rolling swells times 5 hours will take its toll on your yacht. Beside the fact that my sea shells tried to hop back into the sea underway, my knife block wanted to wash itself in the galley sink, and my fake candles wanted a nap on …
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
January 18, 2019 As yet another new front was on its way, with expected sustained winds in the high 20s and gusts in the 30s, sigh, we decided we needed to boogie down the Exumas and get somewhere that a) would be less affected by the constant weather shenanigans, b) had plenty of hidey holes …
Snorkeling reefs, diving plane wrecks, underwater caves, and doing 360s
January 16, 2019 The sail from Highbourn to Cambridge Cay was fantastic. We had both the main and genoa up, averaged 7.5 knots and arrived with enough time for me to take a quick snorkel under the boat before my first meeting at 12n. However, the entrance to Cambridge is not for the faint of …
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