Author Archives: Bill Kinney

Boarded!

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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…

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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!

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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 →

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Planning.

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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…

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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?

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Bill Kinney

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 →

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Eat Snail!

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Bill Kinney

We have been anchored at Moraine Cay (again) for the past couple of days. It still is one of our favorite places.  It receives bad reviews as a relatively unprotected anchorage in the guide books, so people don’t come here, … Continue reading →

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Competitive Fishing.

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Bill Kinney

For a lot of people fishing is a competitive sport.  All one has to do is see the amount of time, money and energy that goes into some of the big fishing tournaments.  And was there ever a fishermen who … Continue reading →

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