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Clearing In
We finally made it to Green Turtle Cay and through some rather fancy maneuvering on Boyd’s part got both into White Sound, onto a mooring and then eventually into a slip, quite a story in itself but not one for now. Since you aren’t here looking at the charts I should probably clarify. Initially the…
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Fair Winds and Following Seas
For nearly 1700 nautical miles we have heard this kind sentiment from almost everyone we know and many people we only barely know. Today we lived it. On the trip from Great Sale Cay to Green Turtle Cay we really had Fair winds, which for our boat is somewhere between 15 and 25 knots. Once…
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There’s No ICW to The Bahamas, Honey
For the fourth or fifth time I find myself telling Nicole, there is no ICW to the Bahamas, honey. We have made it to Vero Beach and the next real stop is Lake Worth where we plan to jump across to The Bahamas. Nicole is beginning to express regular concern about “going outside” as anything…
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Mending
Along with the cooking and cleaning and other boat chores a new and increasingly important task has presented itself. Mending, now mending has historically been a task done as a practical way to continue utilizing clothes and other fabric items which would otherwise be rendered useless due to wear. As a child my mother showed…
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Jekyll Island South – Migratory Path of the Cruisers
After the shuttle went off we headed again down the ICW to hang with our friends boat S/V Ishmael. They were behind us when we went outside but passed us when we waited for the shuttle launch. We caught up with them at Vero Beach, Florida. As we came into the Vero Beach Municipal Marina…
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A Night to Remember
The reason we were so eager to get to Cape Canaveral, some of you may already know, is to watch the Shuttle Endeavor take off. As one of only a few launches scheduled before the program is to be decommissioned in 2011 and the last night launch we were eager to catch it if we…
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Back Outside – The Perfect Trip
We decided to go outside again. In addition to the bridge I wrote about in the post “10 Miles Without an Accident” there were six more bridges the next day. With all the wind and a tide range of between 6 and 8 feet there were many complex issues to deal with at each one.…
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10 Miles No Accidents
Have you ever been to an industrial site and seen the signs that say “103 days no accidents. Safety first.”? I feel like we should make a sign for the boat that says “10 miles no accidents”. We transited from Jekyll Island to an anchorage just beyond Jekyll Island where we anchored for the night.…
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Let Them Make Cake
Now that we have left Jekyll Island and are underway again there are some marked changes in the crews activity. No longer can the kids jump off the boat onto the dock and find someone to play with. No longer do they have the option to withdraw from family life and select someone closer to…
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New Water Out the Portholes
New water out the portholes, finally. Well our month at Jekyll Island Georgia is over. Never, would we have thought that we would be at the same marina for that long. Especially Jekyll Island, it’s really not that big of an island! We originally stopped for only one day but then when the weather was…