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Monthly Archives: April 2018
It really is a thing…
Honest. You can Google it… Fisherman’s Elbow. It is basically the same as tennis elbow: A repetitive motion injury of a particular tendon. But I have it, and it is highly annoying. In my case, it is either caused by, … Continue reading
Here it comes!
Some pictures from the southern end of Eleuthera: Yesterday we left the beautiful pink sand beaches at East Point and we sailed around the southern end of Eleuthera, and north along its western facing coast. A large shallow … Continue reading
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Boarded!
We sailed out of Rock Sound this morning, for the deeper water just south of Eleuthera. Once you get to the ocean, deep water is not far offshore. I mean water is 2000 feet deep less than a half mile … Continue reading
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Dealing with Two Watches
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. So much of the art of seamanship (as opposed to the science) is sorting through and dealing with information that might be missing, … Continue reading
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A day of catching…
Cat Island and Eleuthera are separated by 20 miles of deep ocean. Most of it half a mile deep or more. But… there is a narrow underwater “bridge” about 80 feet below the ocean that links these two islands. With … Continue reading
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Cat Island
Lat: 24º 33.85’N Long: 75º 38.84’W Benett’s Harbor, Cat Island, Bahamas We are anchored in the lee of Cat Island after a delightful sail down from Abaco. As we approached through the narrow, but very deep cut of ocean that … Continue reading
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Goodbye to Abaco!
Time: 1320 local Lat: 26° 20.1’ N Log: 076° 47.3W After several weeks bouncing around the Sea of Abaco, and enjoying all the many places we stopped there, we are off exploring again. We are currently underway headed southeast toward … Continue reading
Planning.
Weather here in the Bahamas is a mixture of Caribbean tropical and North American Temperate. That means we get “normal” tradewinds blowing from a generally easterly direction, punctuated periodically by the tail ends of continental cold fronts. In the 48 … Continue reading
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We’re moving…
If you haven’t had the chance, go back to our previous post: Eat Snail I have updated it with some fun photographs now that we are connected again… Grand Cay We have hooked WHAT? Last night, we had settled in at … Continue reading
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Missing the Point?
It has been some time since we have been so far off the grid I needed to post using the Satphone, but here we are! As we approached Great Sale Cay yesterday at about 3 in the afternoon, the anchorage … Continue reading