It was time to leave The Exumas. It is good to leave a place when you feel a little sad to leave. The Exumas are so special. With Kenny’s help, we made it out of our slip. David quickly got us pointed forward and we headed out of the harbor. It was upwind until we
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We were up a lot checking things on the opposing wind, current cycle. Winds were very strong, due to clock through the west and then northwest pretty much all day before becoming north. We were expecting a thunderstorm so we waited to brave a beach trip. It turned out to be a 1 minute rain
We made the sail from Cat to Galliot. It was a rocky but nice sail. Some of the waves were big in the Sound. Our timing for traversing Galliot Cut was not great but we would have had to leave at 3 am to get there at slack tide or wait to enter after dark.
After a rolly night, we made our move back out into the sound and over to Cat. It was a long trip but at least we could sail. We started with one reef in the main and ended with a double reefed main and partially reefed genoa. We were flying at 8 knots at times.
Up at sunrise to sail back to the Georgetown area. We had a lovely beam reach out onto the sound and then it became “a bit more salty.” There were swells and surface chop and waves on the quarter. Later there were some following seas and it felt like we were flying when we caught
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We woke up early to ready the boat to head to Cat Island. We are out of practice for this. We left the dinghy rudder and centerboard on deck and things on the top shelf which were not secured. Luckily we realized our mistakes and did not lose anything or break anything. It is disconcerting
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Left Galliot as soon as there was good light to see the water in the cut. The other boat left before us and we followed. There was a little current against the wind but the wind was light and the waves were not high. We once again ventured beyond the depths of our depth-finder as
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We headed across the bank toward the northwest channel. From there we abruptly left water that was about 12 feet deep to water that was hundreds and then thousands of feet deep. This area of deep water is called the Tongue of the Ocean. Deb from Nautilus had told me about this transition so I
We readied in the morning for a midday departure. We left our mooring and stopped at Lauderdale Marina to top off fuel and water. The dockhand was kind and helpful. The marina was just before the 27th street bridge. We had an outgoing current so the dockhands allowed us to stay docked until it was
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We left our marina side of the Ponce de Leon Inlet and made our way to the New Smyrna Beach side. It is not navigable to the inlet from our side but there are issues on the other side as well. There is an area near buoy 18 that has shoaling. Bob’s 423 (ICW expert)
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