Thursday, April 7, 2011, Day 193. Rock Sound to Current Cut, Eleuthera. We are finally underway again. The trip was a bit rolly with winds from the east at about 15 knots and seas 3 to 4 feet. We couldn’t read, so we turned on Morning Joe on the …
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Rock Sound Revisited
Friday, April 1, 2011, Day 187. We hung around the marina most of the day and left for Rock Sound at 3:00 pm to meet Ray and Gail tomorrow. We tidied up a bit for their visit.Saturday, April 2, 2011, Day 188. Gail and Ray arrived in the morning. We…
Cape Eleuthera Marina
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, Day 185. The weather for the next few days look awful with winds from the southwest and west at 15 to 30 knots. For our own comfort and since Ray and Gail were coming, we decided to move to Cape Eleuthera Marina, and planne…
Rock Sound
Saturday, March 26, 2011, Day 181. As we were leaving Half Moon Bay, another Holland America cruise ship, the New Amsterdam, arrived. Virtually every cruising boat there was headed north with us to Rock Sound, which turned out to be a very pleasant a…
Half Moon Bay, Little San Salvator
Friday, March 25, 2011, Day 180. Little San Salvator is owned by Holland America Lines and used as a destination/playground for their cruse ship guests. The water is very deep (hundreds of feet) within a couple of hundred yards of the beach, which ma…
New Bight, Cat Island
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Day 178. In the morning, when we tried to run the freezer, it kept tripping the breaker. We found salt all over the cooling water pump. Later, we found that a fitting on a purge valve that we had Butch install last summer …
Black Point Settlement Again
All of the Selenes left Black Point (except Escapade) to find a different shelter from the expected big blow for the next few days. We raised and secured the dinghy so that we could move quickly if necessary. Susan and Jerry (Ho Hum) stopped by to discuss the best cuts to use to get to George Town…
Selene Rendezvous
Saturday, March 12, 2011, Day 167. Officially, the Selene Rendezvous does not begin until tomorrow. But, many Selenes and Selene visitors arrived today. Chuck and Andrea flew in from Annapolis, Mark and Roseanne flew in from Seattle. Maerin (Steve …
Big Majors Spot Revisited
Friday, March 4, 2011, Day 159. We had a causal morning. The wind continued to to be brisk in the 20 to 25 knot range from the eastern quadrant. Before we left Black Point, Linda and Cory (Live Wire II) contacted us on the VHF. They are just a lit…
Back to Black Point
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Day 156, Linda’s Birthday. We had planned to depart early to make Black Point Settlement today. Ken tried to start the gen-set. It wouldn’t crank. With much help from Kyle and Linda, we diagnosed the problem, which inclu…
