Pensocola Cay to Allans Cay to Fox Town - day 270

Winds were much lighter in the morning, and coming from the north directly now, so we had much better protection where we were at Pensocola Cay.

I decided to try a new technique sailing off anchor since we were close to the cliffs. Normally we raise the main sail but …


Coopers Town to Pensocola Cay - day 269

We woke up to a rather large swell and strong north west winds in front of Coopers Town. It was a pretty uncomfortable morning, so we got underway quickly after waking up.

Raising anchor was a real challenge here, and I had to bust out some gloves. We were in …


Manjack Cay to Powell Cay to Cooperstown - day 266 to 268

Had a nice couple of nights at Manjack Cay. Met up with Bluemoon and got to see their Guineapig setup on their boat (they have two Guineapigs onboard), which was actually quite brillant. I couldn't picture it before seeing it, but it works quite well.

They are heading back to …


Great Abaco to Green Turtle to Manjack Cay - day 263 to 265

We managed to stick out a couple of nights at Great Abaco. We had good wind protection, but quite a bit of waves rolling in, which made it rather uncomfortable at anchor. But it wasn't horrible and maybe our least bad option.

We did however make the most of it …


Crab Cay to Great Abaco - day 260 to 262

We were at Crab Cay for a couple of nights while we had some strong southeast winds. We went ashore the first day and I somehow managed to knock a coconut out of a tree with another coconut. We attempted to get a couple more by boosting Aria up a …


Manjack Cay to Crab Cay - day 258 and 259

We spent two nights at Manjack Cay on the western tip. The anchorage was nicely protected from the winds we had, but at high tide we did get some ocean swell coming in, and so it was a bit rolly now and again because of that. We ended up re-anchoring …


Red Bay to Manjack Cay - day 257

We woke up with plans to cross through Whale Cay Cut today. This little section of the Abacos is very shallow between Whale Cay and Great Abaco Island, and so the deep route is to go out and around Whale Cay. This means timing the tide to avoid currents, etc …


Orchid Bay Marina to Red Bay - day 252 to 256

We spent 5 nights at the dock at Orchid Bay Marina on Great Guana Cay. This was a nice break from the constant go of cruising and gave us some time to relax and catch up on work, boat projects, provisioning, etc.

We didn't actually get up to a whole …


Parrot Cays to Orchid Bay Marina - day 251

After not being able to get a mooring ball in Hope Town, we decided to book a stay at Orchid Bay Marina on Great Guana Cay nearby. We've been on the go a lot lately and we were looking for some down time. Also there was a fair bit of …


Lynyard Cay to Parrot Cays - day 250

Had a bit of a lazy morning before getting underway today. We planned a little 20NM sail up to Hope Town. Nice light winds, but enough to sail, so we raised our full main and sailed off anchor and floated out of the anchorage and due north. Had some fun …


Egg Island to Lynyard Cay Abacos - day 249

Today was finally the day, making our big crossing north to the Abacos. It was a bit of a northern migration with the 30+ other boats from our anchorage all heading the same way. I'm not sure why, but we were a bit apprehensive about this passage. I guess we …


Rainbow Cay to Egg Island - day 248

Our plan today was to make our way to Current Cut (a narrow bit where as the name implies, the current gets quite strong with the tides), and then head over to Egg Island to anchor for the night before heading north across Providence Channel to The Abacos.

The wind …


Rock Sound to Rainbow Cay - day 242 to 247

We spent some time in Rock Sound waiting out some weather, and re-provisioning before heading north again. We had quite a little front come through with enough wind to flip our dingy that was trailing behind the boat. Thankfully we had the paddles tied down on deck, so our only …


Shroud Cay to Rock Sound - day 240 and 241

We had one last day in the Exumas before crossing back over to Rock Sound and we were putting it to good use by finally going to do the washing machine. We had missed doing it on our first visit to Shroud and kept hearing how fun it was so …


Malabar Cays to Shroud Cay - day 239

Very lightwind day today. We sailed off anchor nice and easily, and headed towards Shroud Cay.

We put up the spinnaker, realized we needed to head upwind a short bit more (oops), doused the spinnaker, sailed the 10 minutes more we needed, and then raised it once again. It was …


Pipe Cay to Malabar Cays - day 235 to 238

We waited out the strong winds in Pipe Cay anchored close to our friends on Atlas VII. It was quite windy, but we were anchored up pretty well and we were nicely protected as the winds wrapped around from the south through west to north.

Our chain seemed to get …


Soldier Cay to Pipe Cay - day 234

We woke up feeling a little bit better. Slack tide was around 10 am so we headed over to the aquarium with Atlas and Salty. It was beautiful as always (this is actually the third time we’ve gone) but it’s worth it every time. This time since we …


Pipe Creek to Soldier Cay - day 231 to 233

Our first night anchored in Pipe Creek didn't go so well. The evening was wonderful, but late that night I woke up and noticed the little motor cruiser that we were anchored some distance away from was right up close to us. I suspect we were being influenced more by …


Big Majors to Pipe Creek - day 225 to 230

We start this post on Feb 28th after anchoring in Big Majors.

We had stayed up visiting with Atlas until well past cruiser’s midnight the night before so we had a bit of a slow morning. Atlas’s Aria came over for a play while her parents went into …


Cape Eleuthera to Big Majors - day 224

We had a nice night at anchor, and woke up early to head across the sound. Winds were light to start, but made for an easy sail off anchor.

We were on a close hauled tack for most of the way with a perfect line to Staniel Cay, but shortly …


Rock Sound to Cape Eleuthera - day 216 to 223

It had been a busy week so, when we moved back onto the boat we were happy to spend a few quiet days just doing some work / school and continuing to stash away more provisions. We originally planned to head to the Exumas on Saturday but really heavy winds were …


Rock Sound and Eleuthera Land Based Life - day 206 to 215

It was finally February 10th, the day we had been excitedly waiting for! Elisa, Rohan and Kamaal were scheduled to arrive in Rock Sound around 4:30 pm which meant that we were going to be leaving the boat and spending some time returning to land life. Since they weren …


Bitter Guana Cay to Rock Sound - day 205

Today was our crossing back across Exuma Sound to Eluthera. We had some nice east winds predicted for the day which would give us a nice wind angle to cross the sound. We wanted to leave early to give ourselves lots of time, but this meant going through to Lumber …


Rudder Cut to Bitter Guana Cay - day 204

We spent three full days at anchor in Rudder Cut. Our friends came down and anchored beside us, and we had a nice few days of just hanging out there. Their daughter turned 9 (pretty cool spot to have a birthday!) and we had some cake which was nice. We …


Long Island to Rudder Cut - day 200

We spend a full day in Calabash Bay and rowed ashore to hike up to Columbus Monument. It was a bit of a row, and a long hike, but a nice easy one on a wide road with very little traffic. Beautiful views up at the Monument as well. Aria …


Georgetown to Calabash Bay, Long Island - day 198

Today we had some nice winds to make our way toward Long Island. We finally heading out of Georgetown and then back up the Exumas and back over to Rock Sound Eleuthera as our destination to meet up with family there. But since the winds are good for heading to …


Georgetown - day 191 to 197

We woke up Saturday morning to lots of wind as expected. It was a little rolly on the ball but wasn’t too bad considering how strong the wind was. We mostly stayed on the boat that day as rowing against that much wind is never fun. It was a …


Rudder Cut Cay to Georgetown - day 190

We left Rudder Cut around 8 am long after most of the other boast we were with. They left at first light so they could do some fishing on the way to George Town. It worked out well for them and several big Mahi Mahi were their reward for the …


Black Point to Rudder Cut Cay - day 189

Since heavy winds were predicted for Friday evening and Black Point was 50 NM from Georgetown we wanted to get at least halfway on Thursday just in case the winds filled in earlier than predicted. We had originally planned to head to Leaf Cay to check out some rock iguanas …


O'Brians Cay to Black Point - day 187

We spent 3 days at O'Brians Cay. Our first day we got the dingy up on desk and did some epoxying to fix up the scratches and dents from the dingy going ashore on the rocks. That ended up being a full day on the boat since we couldn't dingy …


Cambridge Cay to O'Brians Cay - day 184

After our traumatic night with the dingy, and the crapy nature of this mooring ball in the current, we woke up and decided to move over to an area called the aquarium to check that out. We were considering just dingying over from Cambrige, but it was time to leave …


Warderick Wells to Cambridge Cay - day 183

We spent two days in Warderick Wells. Aria and Theone did some hiking on the island during the day, while I stayed on the boat to get some work done.

The next morning we sailed off the mooring ball. We were the last ones out, so there were no other …


Hawksbill Cay to Warderick Wells - day 181

After a long rolly night and not much sleep, we woke up slightly grump and got underway. We slipped the mooring ball and sailed out with a double reefed main in the strong winds. When we got to the deeper areas we rolled out a bit of genoa and were …


Shroud Cay to Hawksbill Cay - day 180

Super light wind day today, and we woke up to a very calm morning. I wanted to check out the well that was nearby, they say it was even used by pirates back in the day. I didn't realize there was any natural fresh water here, but this proves me …


Shroud Cay, Exumas - day 179

We wanted to row around some of the mangroves in Shroud Cay, so we packed up some food and water, our snorkel gear, and set forth in our dingy. The entrance to the creek was near where we were moored and it was a quick row over there. The current …


Rock Sound to Shroud Cay, Exumas - day 178

Our second day in Rock Sound we woke up to a pretty wavy anchorage. We got into town for some provisions and I got a bit of extra water to top up our tanks. After that we motored over to the other side of the Sound to find a much …


Hatchet Bay Harbour to Rock Sound - day 176

We had a nice few days in Hatchet Bay, very well protected from some of the winds we were getting. It was nice to be at a super flat anchorage this time.

Our first day at Hatchet Bay we got invited to the beach with a couple of the other …


Glass Window Bridge to Hatchet Bay Harbour - day 172

After a rolly and long night, we were excited to get going and get into Hatchet Bay where there is great protection from everything, and thus nice clam waters. We hat lots of room and nice winds so we sailed off anchor and started heading upwind towards Hatchet Bay. Just …


Meek Island to Glass Window Bridge - day 171

It was time for us to move on again. We had a beautiful day with some nice light winds, so we sailed off anchor and headed towards Current Cut, where you can cut through into the Bight of Eleuthera. It's called Current Cut, because as you can imagine, the current …


Spanish Wells and Meek Island - day 167 to 170

Spanish Wells was a fun stop for us. We were anchored out front of the harbour which worked well with the north winds we were having while we were there. The row in was about half a nautical mile, which was a solid workout going into town and back.

Our …



White Cay and Berry Christmas - day 158 to 165

After getting to White Cay (maybe more commonly called Hoffmans Cay, which is the larger Cay right here as well), we were ready to finally stop and relax a while. We had 5 other kid boats with us here, all part of the Berry Christmas group. Our first night in …


Soldier Cay to White Cay in the Berry Islands - day 157

After a good sleep we woke up and had some time to enjoy the place we were in before moving down to White Cay where our buddy boats where. We were the only boat in the anchorage and it seemed crazy how beautiful and empty the place was. Aria and …


West End Bahamas to Soldier Cay in the Berry Islands - day 156

As we relaxing on anchor at Gin Sur Mer on our first day after crossing over, a plan was being formulated by the group of kid boats to head out that evening for an overnight sail to the Berry Islands, specifically to White Cay about half way down the chain …


West Plam Beach FL to West End Bahamas - day 154

We spent one night in West Plam Beach, and the next day I rowed Theone into a nearby boat ramp to head into the city to pick up our packages from the UPS store, and to get our last minute groceries. The weather window was looking ok. But more than …


Marriot Resort to West Plam Beach - day 152

We spent two days at anchor near Marriot Resort, just south of Jensen Beach. It was a nice anchorage to stop and get some rest. Lots of wind the past couple of days and there were probably at least 15 kite surfers out zipping around the bay.

We spent our …


Jensen Beach to Marriot Resort - day 150

So we ended up spending a lot of time in Jensen Beach (7 days!). We originally planned just a few nights to re-provision, but then the weather was getting ugly so we just stayed, and then stayed longer.

We did rent a car there for 2 days which was super …


Fort Pierce Inlet to Jensen Beach - day 143

We spent two nights at anchor in Fort Pierce Inlet. Where we had anchored was right beside a beach where we could easily row to shore and leave the dingy. So we did that, and got some groceries, pizza, ice cream and all the good things that are usually hard …


St. Augustine to Fort Pierce Inlet - day 140 and 141

With a nice weather window to sail down the coast, we left the marina in St. Augustine just before 9:30am in order to catch the bridge opening at 9:30. We left in a bit of a rush, but made it through the bridge and then motored onward out …


St. Augustine FL - day 137 to 139

We spent three nights at the marina in St. Augustine. We originally booked 2, but as usual, 2 is never enough. They day you arrive is always spent getting there, getting settled, showering, cleaning up the boat, etc. Day 2 ends up rushed, provisioning, trying to site see a bit …