It was definitely the highlight of the day for me when I realized that there was a fish on the end of the hook. I could see him jumping 300 feet behind the boat, gracefully arching in the air and tugging on the 300 lb. test line. New at catching fish meant that I had Read More

The wind is blowing 20-25 kn and I am tied up to a mooring ball off of Stocking Island, opposite Chat ‘n’ Chill beach. It is supposed to be like this all week with the wind settling down perhaps by next Wednesday or Thursday according to my PredictWind app. I’ve been here almost 3 weeks Read More

Georgetown is generally the end of the line for many cruisers. The reason for this is that the predominant winds are from the east and to get south to the Caribbean, it is necessary to head east before you can head south. Sailors wishing to do this need to wait for a weather window and Read More

It is starting to get dark and somewhere near Compass Cay in the central Exumas and as we were trying to escape a falling tide, we were about half an hour too late and stuck on a sandbar. I have a Shoal draft keel and when we looked with fins and mask, the keel was Read More

The last wave of the pandemic has been the worst of all of the waves this far. The omicron variant was far easier to catch and spread more quickly throughout. At our hospital, surgery was cancelled for most of the month of January and February and it was not possible to come down to the Read More

It was sunrise in early November, 2021. I knew we were close to Grand Bahama Island because of the GPS tracking but actually seen it in the distance as the sun rose after six days at sea was indescribable. I had been at the helm for the last 2 hours while the other two sailors Read More

After ariving at the Grand Bahamas Yacht club the first thing that I did was raise our quarantine yellow flag. What this meant was that we had to go through the customs and immigration process, purchase a cruising permit for the Bahamas, and make sure that we had a valid health certificate. Before we left Read More

It is said that the pessimist complains about the wind, an optimist hopes it’ll change, and a sailor adjusts the sails. It’s actually a little more complicated than that as you might expect for the sailor. It is the weather that is the most important factor when sailing south. Several months ago I subscribed to Read More

Getting a 34,000 pound 51 foot sailboat transported to the east coast is no easy task. The first question that comes to mind might be why would anybody want to do this? I have spent hours dreaming about the warm blue waters of the Bahamas. Imagine a warm breeze filling the sails with dolphins playfully Read More

A sailor’s dream is to sail south to Paradise. Images of swinging in a hammock in a gentle breeze while watching the sunset from the front of the sailboat gently bobbing at anchor in a secluded harbour surrounded by palm trees is what appears near the surface of my mind. This is how any journey Read More