The great debate

Yesterday was one month since we pulled out of Loggerhead Marina in Palm Beach Gardens and started our sailing adventure.

spotted eagle ray

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

W32

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

Alternator

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

hangin' around

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

Not so productive day

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

Fish

Nassau

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 "

our track so far

We are planning to leave Bimini this morning around 10 AM and head to Nassau. There are 4 other sailboats here who have the same plan, so we’re all going together. The trip from Bimini to Nassau is about 110 nautical miles, so it will take us two days

We have arrived!

Just a quick update – three other sailboats pulled in next to us in the past 24 hours and one of them asked a local for some conch and when he arrived to deliver it – he realized they didn’t know how to prepare or cook it.  In keeping with the

Nassau here we come

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

Where are we?

After living on the boat for almost a month we’ve found quite a few differences from every day life at home. * Hitting your head happens daily. I’m surprised one of us hasn’t split our head open, or got a concussion. Splinters, bruises and cuts also happen just