This morning we pulled anchor from the Sainte Anne anchorage in southwestern Martinique, and set sail. As always, you can find our track and status here:

https://saillogger.com/svharmonie

For most of the two months we’re were at the dock in Martinique I was traveling on one business project or another while Karen stayed put working as Project Manager for various repair and upgrade projects on Harmonie.

Our target destination is Great Inagua in the Bahamas. The first of the Bahamian islands with a port of entry where we can check in. We are about 5 days out from there. We hope to spend a week or two exploring, beach-combing, and fishing in the Bahamas before heading further north to the next project.

This will be an easier trip than most. For the first time in ages we have crew aboard to help with our watch schedule. Kevan has sailed with us before, and we all expect things to go easier with ta 4 on/8 off schedule compared to the 4 on/4 off that Karen and I are used to!

Our first day at sea has been uneventful. We have been treated to two brown boobies using the boat to help them catch fish.

They soar around the boat waiting for a school of flying fish to scatter from the hull, and they are on them in a flash grabbing them just after they splash down.

Tomorrow afternoon we will come up on an open ocean weather buoy, where we hope to snag a tuna or two for the freezer.

Harmonie is performing well. It is good to be underway on our own boat.