Our friends from Poly-n-Easy were making for Great Guana Cay, so we decided to try the harbor again, and this time were a little luckier. We snagged the mooring ball we wanted, and Annika dove down on it to make sure the tackle was in decent shape. Just after she got back aboard and went … Continue reading Mejor Guana

The area round Marsh Harbour, on the far side of the Whale Cut, is a lot more developed (if “developed is the right word in this context). There are a lot more cruisers hanging out in Great Guana, Man ‘O War, Elbow, and Lubber’s Cays, and in the small anchorages heading down to Little Harbour … Continue reading Spoiling for Spoil Cay

A blow was coming on us after a few days, and we were running low on provisions, so we slid down a nice day sail to Marsh Harbour, the largest town in the Abacos with a population of around 5,000. The harbor is nice, if shallow, and there are several nice marinas. We stayed at … Continue reading A Trip to the Big City. Or Marsh Harbour.

After a week or so in White Sound, we edged our way out and backtracked north to the next set of Islands above Green Turtle - Manjack and Crab Cays. We anchored between the two Islands and set out exploring. Manjack has no towns and only a few people live on the island. They're wonderful … Continue reading Manjack (Pronounced “Munjack”)

We sailed southeast down the bank for the rest of the day after making the cut, and anchored for the night just north of Little Sale Cay. The anchorage gave us good protection from the south wind, and good holding in sand in 8 feet of water. It was like anchoring in a big swimming … Continue reading Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas

We headed out of St Augustine on the afternoon tide on New Years Eve, bound down for Ft. Pierce, and things started off perfectly. Good wind, good seas... Long around 0400, just off the shoals at Cape Canaveral, our engine conked out, just like that. We had almost no wind, and the current was taking … Continue reading Ft Pierce – Not So Much

We've spent a good deal of time in St Augustine and we just love it there. The city dates to 1565, making it the oldest town in the US, and it has a wonderful downtown with old Spanish architecture and narrow pedestrian streets. Great place to spend Christmas and to provision up and to see … Continue reading Holidays in the Oldest Town

After Okracoke we were able to run down a few much faster legs outside. Okracoke to Morehead City was a rough one with breezes on our tail and the waves on our side making everyone a bit queasy. (Except for Annika, who spent the day blithely reading Harry Potter in her cabin and didn't understand … Continue reading Heading Down Faster

We left Manteo and had more shallow ICW fun and another happy 65 bridge to drag our antenna across, and then slipped out into the Pamlico Sound. Unbelievably lovely in pretty much any direction you looked. Here again was another choice. The Pamlico is very long and wide and can get very rough. I talked … Continue reading Okracoke