Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Georgetown to Mathewtown
Here’s our route through the rest of the rest of the Bahamas (Georgetown to Mathewtown). Mathewtown is our jumping off point through the windward passage, landing in Cuba. (click on the image to see the whole route)
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Staniel Cay
Here’s a few snaps of the place made famous by the 1964 James Bond film, ‘Thunderball’. According to Chris, the thunderball grotto is completely worth the snorkle. See below why I didn’t partake in the snorkling. Shark infested. This one was under our boat for awhile. To be fair, these are nurse sharks and are [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Communications
We’re still working on our SSB email, so unfortunately, I can only post when we get net access. My posts will likely be intermittant from here to George Town. Our SSB transmit is working, but weak (receive, is crystal clear). Chris did a radio check and he was heard, but our ground and couterpoise are [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Down the Exuma Chain
We had a beautiful sail from Nassau, 15 knots of wind, out of the SE, which put us on a nice beam reach all the way across the yellow bank to Allen’s Cay. The cat likes this point of sail – a little too much for my liking. In only 15 knots and with a [...]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Cat Cay to Nassau
What a relief it is to have finally made it across the Gulf Stream and on to Nassau. All of this outfitting frustration has lifted and we feel it’s been worth it. Unlike our previous attempt to cross, this time the winds were really quite light –10-12 knots out of the south. The steady southerly [...]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Nassau!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L762HQ-ha7I Awesome song. Thanks Dave. Yeah! We even sailed it some. Too exhausted to report entire journey. Sails were up, wind was in a mostly favorable direction, though I wonder if those sails are fail-over
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Cat Cay aka ‘The Village’
When the going gets rough, we make bread! I love how these loaves turned out. They are challa bread and made from one of the recipes my aunt gave me. I can’t wait to try out the other bread recipes she gave me. This island is a freaky little place. I feel like I’m on [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Great Bahama Bank Crossing: Take One
After listening to Chris Parker’s weather on the SSB for a few days in Alice Town Harbour (and touring Bimini with our dingy), Chris and I thought the winds calm enough for us to complete our second leg: the Great Bahamas Bank to Chub Cay in the Berry Islands at the mouth of the NW [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
We made it!
On the night of the crossing, we moved the boat to ‘No Name Harbour’ on the other side of Biscayne Bay, where about ten other boats were anchored and waiting to cross as well. Chris and I made final preparations, set up speed dial on the satellite phone, and tied down items to prepare for [...]