Author Archives: Bill Kinney

Time 17:21 local Lat: N 22° 19.8′ Long: W 73° 28.1′ Abrahams Bay, Mayaguana, Bahamas We are safely anchored in Abrahams Bay on the south side of Mayaguana. The sun is setting, the water is gin clear and flat calm, … Continue reading →

Time 20:00 local Lat N 22° 56.4′ Long W 73° 40.4′ Enroute to Mayaguana The wind has continued to be a bit fickle. Fading to nothing in the hours before sunrise, so we motored most of the day, but it … Continue reading →

Time 01:15 local Lat: N 23° 37.7′ Long: W 75° 06.6′ Enroute to Mayaguana, Bahamas After an early start, we motored most of the day in what would charitably be described as “light” winds. As the moon rose just after … Continue reading →

If the weather follows the models this time tomorrow will see a high pressure ridge drop down from the north and push the tradewinds far to the south of us.  It looks like several days of light and variable winds. … Continue reading →

Lat:  N 24º 10.92′ Lon: W 76º 27.69′ Big Majors Spot, Bahamas Today we sailed about 30 miles south on the “inside”, that is , west of the Exuma Cays on the shallower water of the Bahamas Bank.  It was … Continue reading →

Lat: N 24 31.6′ Long: W 76 47.8′ West side of Shroud Cay, Bahamas Yesterday we had a delightful sail down from our previous stop. We took the ocean side–hoping to snag a fish, but that wasn’t to be. Today … Continue reading →

Log: N 24º 44.9 Lat: W 76º 50.3’ Allen Cay, Exumas, Bahamas We waited for our weather window to cut across the “Middle Ground” from Nassau to the chain of islands in the Bahamas known as the Exumas. Although it … Continue reading →

The first rule of making your way to windward in the trade winds is to not argue with Mother Nature.  In steady, settled weather the wind blows steadily–and hard–from the East or Northeast, day, after day, after day.That’s just great … Continue reading →

Well, part of a day at least. The storage bag that came with our dinghy we use to store the dinghy when we have it on deck.  The bag is of a reasonably functional design, but some of the materials were … Continue reading →

It’s usually nice when the weather forecast you made your plans on turns out to be spot on, and that’s what we had yesterday and last night. We are in an anchorage that has pretty good protection all round.  To … Continue reading →