Saturday, February 26, 2011, Day 153. We are back in George Town to meet Kyle and Anita Tomorrow. The voyage up from Thompson Bay was quick thanks to a favorable northwest current. We anchored near the western end of Sand Dollar Beach, near Volley…
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Thompson Bay, Long Island
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, Day 150. What should have been a tough day was actually quite nice. Navigating around numerous obstructions in three foot seas headed directly upwind, should have made this a tough day. We had a very pleasant cruise.At …
Stocking Island / George Town
Saturday, February 12, 2011, Day 139. Elizabeth Harbor is naturally well protected. It is formed by Stocking Island (not to be confused with Lee Stocking Island) on the east and Great Exuma Island on the west. It has good holding. Georgetown is a (…
Lee Stocking Island
Thursday, February 10, 2011, Day 137. Several weather reports are predicting very bad weather with a several cold fronts (read northerly and westerly winds) coming through the area beginning Saturday and lasting for a week, or so. We decided that it …
Little Bay, Great Guana Cay
Nancy and Jim dinghied over in the morning and told us that they decided to move to Little Bay, on Great Guana Cay just south of Black Point Settlement, the site of a failed resort and this lived-in castle. We went to Staniel Cay for internet access a…
Big Majors Spot Revisited
Sunday, February 6, 2011, Day 133, Super Bowl Sunday. Well, the weather forecast changed, significantly. Yesterday’s forecast for Monday was ugly. The cold front that was supposed to come through on Monday stalled in Florida and is weakening. Tod…
Little Farmer’s Cay
Tuesday, February 2, 2011, Day 128. Escapade and Slow Dancin’ set sail for Little Farmer’s Cay. There were two possible routes — Exuma Sound and Exuma Banks. We choose the latter. Since it was a short trip and the seas were calm, we decided to…
Black Point Settlement Revisited
Friday, January 28, 2011, Day 124. A day punctuated by a bad judgement in the morning. For the last several days, we knew that the winds were predicted to be from the northwest if we were west of the cold front and southeast if we were east of the co…
Exuma Land and Sea Park
Friday, January 21, 2011, Day 117. The weather looks bad (relatively speaking, high temperatures in the upper 70s, lows in the low 70s) for the next few days, with winds predicted to clock around from the east through southeast, southwest, and northwe…
Black Point Settlement, Great Guana Cay
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Day 114. The Black Point Settlement anchorage is beautiful. While only nine miles south of Big Majors Spot, the weather seems noticeably warmer. We are comfortable in shorts and tees here in the morning and evening, while …
