We left Nassau just after 8:30 AM on Saturday and pulled into the anchorage at Norman’s Cay around 4:30 PM. We had macaroni and cheese with hotdogs for dinner – a favorite meal from college – and spent the rest of the evening with a bottle of champagne and
We’ll be pulling out of Nassau very shortly! Hopefully this works this time… To see where we are click here.
Where to go next…? The Exumas is a chain of 365 islands so we have lots of places to choose from. Our original plan was to stop at Allen’s Cay, see the iguanas and maybe spend a day. The anchorage at Allen’s Cay is notorious for being crowded,
Last night we watched a spotted eagle ray swimming around the boat.
Yesterday was one month since we pulled out of Loggerhead Marina in Palm Beach Gardens and started our sailing adventure.
Here is a very brief description of our current "sabbatical": It’s always been Braden’s dream to travel around on a sailboat. The destination has never been too important, just the trip itself. Erin likes to travel and has always had some romantic idea of sailing off
Today we picked up a Sport Fish of the Atlantic book at the local marine store. Since we already caught one fish we’re optimistic we may catch more… so we should probably know what they are. We flipped through and found the Bar Jack, which looks very similar to
Certainly an eventful trip across the Bahama Bank and then across the tounge of the ocean, but we made it safely into Nassau this morning. Despite plans on stopping to rest a few hours, engine and electrical issues made us press on without resting and without much of our "
If you’ve been reading along, we arrived at Bimini on Saturday morning after about a 9.5 hour crossing. We motored the whole way averaged roughly 4.7 knots over 50 nautical miles. Coming into the cut between North Bimini and South Bimini islands we briefly ran aground. Our
We are on the move! We moved to an anchorage just outside No Name Harbor on Friday afternoon. We ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and are getting to bed early so we can get out of here around 12:00 AM. We’re anchored with about 6 other boats
While we’re waiting for weather we’ve been keeping busy around Coconut Grove. CocoWalk is within walking distance from the marina, so we’ve been there several times for food, drinks and a movie ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ). On New Years Eve we went to see the
