Yearly archives: 2014

We sailed across the Sea of Abaco from Great Abaco Island to Man Of War Cay. This small cay has a harbour and settlement that is famous historically for boat building.  They still build boats here and now have a small pleasant Marina in their harbour. Our draft made anchoring […]

The shallow and protected Sea of Abaco is nestled between a string of cays and Great Abaco Island. The largest town in this area, and the third largest in all the Bahamas, is Marsh Harbour.  With multiple grocery, hardware and beer stores, along with a coin operated laundry, it makes […]

Hope Town, on Elbow Cay, is the iconic Abacos sea side harbour.  With it’s candy striped light house, cottage style homes and palm tree lined beaches it is a very popular holiday spot for the affluent American market. Just a short ferry ride from the International Airport at Marsh Town, […]

One problem with the Bahamas is… it is very, very shallow. Especially for our boat with a 2m draft.  We have learned to cut if very close. We try to find sandy spots with no rocks and get in as shallow as we can. Before coming to the Bahamas we […]

June is a funny time to travel in the Abacos weather wise.  Most of the time it is sunny with light winds, but occasionally we get squalls come through that dump a load of rain and blow us about a bit. The storm clouds are easy to pick out.  In […]

Time to say goodbye to the Island of Eleuthera and my favourite Bahamian anchorage, so far, Egg Island. There has been little or no wind for the last few days, but we will have to ‘bite the bullet’ and waste some fuel to continue North. Our plans are to head up […]