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2012 By the Numbers

April 27 to July 20Here are some numbers for our 2012 Bahamas trip on FLUKE. This was our longest Bahamas trip yet in both days and miles.The fuel usage numbers include the hours running the generator, primarily to recharge the batteries, but sometimes…

Bahamas 2012 on Tripline

September 2012I recently discovered Tripline while reading another Kadey Krogen owner's blog (Muddy Waters).I have made maps before using google but this looked much better and was very easy. I used it to create the following Map Player and Place L…

The 2012 Grand Finale

July 5 – 20, 2012In the last post I said that we had dropped the anchor in Wells Bay.  Wells Bay is adjacent to Grand Cay, Little Grand Cay, and Big Grand Cay.  I've commented before that there doesn't seem to be much logic used in naming s…

Worth Repeating

June 30 – July 4, 2012After we had finished our “business” in the Green Turtle Cay area, Wayne asked me where I wanted to stop next as we continued our move northward.  The answer was easy, Powell Cay.  We had not stopped there for several year…

Stranded Naked

June 29, 2012This is one of those rare times I am writing the blog “real time”.  Today is really June 29, and I will be talking about what we did today.  If all goes well, we will be able to post this tomorrow.After we left Hope Town harbor yeste…

There's Still Hope

June 24 – 28, 2012With several days of poor weather in the forecast associated with tropical storm Debby, we made a good decision to go back to Hope Town where we could pick up a secure mooring.  We wouldn't have to worry about our anchor draggi…

Potpourri

June 20 – 23, 2012The title of this post wasn't named because we've been watching Jeopardy! or have seen Alex Trebek on one of the megayachts that has passed us.  I'm just going to talk about how we came full circle back to the Abacos an…

Dying a Slow Death

June 18 – 19, 2012After we departed from Big Majors we decided to go visit the Exumas Land and Sea Park as it had been quite a few years since our last visit.  The ELSP covers the area of 15 big cays, 22 miles in length by 8 miles in width, from Wax…

With the Pigs and Big Dogs

June 16 – 17,  2012After we left Black Point early in the morning, we only traveled a short distance (1.5 hrs in time, but even that much was because we had to go around a big rock bar) north to Big Majors Spot.  It is a popular anchorage because o…