Yearly archives: 2015

We used the fair weather window to move my guest Roy up the Exuma chain of islands.  With all the islands and cays so close together there are lots to explore in his short visit. To start with we moved the boat 27nm north to Lee Stocking Island.   Roy’s first passage […]

Well it was bound to happen. As soon as we leave the United States things start to break.  First one of my humans had to ‘pay through the nose’ to replace a loose filling and my camera died.  Of course it waited until our company was on their flight to […]

Well we are off to George Town. George Town is the ‘destination’ and turn around point for most cruisers, and a stop over and restocking station for the few carrying on.  The Bahamian town is over 200 years old and was initially established in August of 1792.  Since then it […]

One of my humans had a birthday coming up and he expressed an interest in some cracked conch and Guinness Foreign Extra. Both of which are more local fair so I sent them off to Black Point Settlement on Great Guana Cay. Of course I made them work for their […]

With company coming soon the humans keep moving us south.  We spent another day tacking (moving the sails side to side of the boat) to make progress to the next Cay.  I say ‘we’ but I leave the ‘hard work’ to the humans. With the ‘fresh’ winds we were anchored […]

Now everyone is entitled to their opinion.  But we would have to agree with the Guide Book for once.  Hawksbill Cay is stunning. The beaches are beautiful,  There is a small creek and mangrove system to explore and the hills are covered in rich vegetation. Amazingly we had the anchorage to […]