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.
One of us FINALLY convinced the other it was time to call a mechanic. He came out yesterday. tested the alternator and found an issue with it. He took it to an alternator repair shop and brought it back this afternoon… installed it… and it works! Now that we’re
S/V Database is our home on the water. She is a Westsail 32′ built in 1974 with a factory finished interior and a cutter rig. Our sail inventory consists of a jib, stays’l, two light air drifter type sails and a main with three reef points. We have
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
Our home in Nassau is the Nassau Yacht Haven. Today we walked down to the cruise ships. There were 5 ships in the port, so there were tons of people. Its definitely weird being in Nassau and not being on a cruise ship. We checked out the straw market and
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 "