When we woke up, we didn’t know it would be our last day here. Maybe David did. We have been thinking about a potential crossing window on April first but then we thought about waiting. But now, the weather report is telling us that there may not be another sailing crossing day for weeks and
A cold front was due and the winds arrived around 2 am. We had wind and rain but no lightning. At one point I could not see the boats to our starboard. During the day, the winds increased and the showers became less frequent. It was a great day for blogging and watching basketball. We
We had a very special calm day. We decided to devote it to snorkeling. Our first trek was somewhat of a wild goose chase. We went looking for some coral between Manjack and Green Turtle Cay. It was a lovely dinghy ride and we learned that it would be possible to go from one cay
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Our goal was to get around Whale Cay as a boat of our draft has to go this way to travel north in the Abacos. There is a shallow bar blocking passage on the inside. We had to go out Great Guana cut, traverse a channel along Whale Cay and re enter at Whale Cay
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We decided to ferry to Hope Town for the day. I had called several small motor boat rental places but the one in Marsh Harbour did not rent for the day and the others on nearby cays did not answer inquiries. It seemed like the ferry was the best option. We wanted to visit Man-O-War
It was boat chore day. There was more cleaning and a trip to the town to visit the grocery and the amazing hardware store. If we were successful getting this done, we would be able to go exploring tomorrow. We are very excited that Jeff and Deb are on the move and plan to arrive
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We got up early as we wanted to snorkel at Sandy Cay before proceeding to Marsh Harbour and we had to go into Marsh Harbour near high tide as it is a little shallow in the back of the harbour where the marina is. It was a calm morning as we traveled north. We went
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We had to cross the Northeast Providence Channel to get from north Eleuthera to the Abacos. Last year it was a terrible passage where we were rolling in the waves on a downwind sail. It was before we had a preventer and everything was flapping and swinging and when we took the sails down, we
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Current Cut tends to weigh on the mind in the days leading up to its passage. It is a cut between the northern tip of Eleuthera and Current Island. It i deep and fairly straight but has a strong current that can get up to 4.5-5 knots. When a boat motors at 6 knots, this
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Some other boaters were interested in joining our tour. Laura from S/V Aurora, a Pacific Seacraft and Teri from Captain Kidd, a small motor cat, were interested in coming with us. We found enough bikes to ride over. It was a short trip without the meanderings of yesterday. Mitzi was our tour guide and took
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