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Our last post was our last vacation trip on SYL in 2019. We left Madisonville, La where we had been living in Covington, La since 2015. We had our house on the market and left for our beloved Exumas. Our plan was to travel on SYL and our RV for the next few years and […]

Today we moved around from Blackpoint to “Castlebeach”. Our little group are the only ones here. It was my favorite beach until I discovered Shroud. SYL is easily beached so I am sure bobbing is in my future today. But first housekeeping. After a couple of days of being cooped up on the boat ( […]

Blackpoint has one of the best laundromats in the Central Exumas. We will often wait to do laundry until we get here. It is well run and…..it is right around the corner from Loraines which is without doubt my favorite place to eat in the Exumas. Her fish and conch are the BEST! We have […]

We arrived in Nassau from Frazier Hog Cay. It was one of those 80% days. Rusty and I say sailing is a 10%/80%10% proposition. The top 10% is why we sail. The wind is right, the water and waves are right, motors are not required. For me it is the most awesome experience there is, […]

The sail from Nassau to Shroud was an 80% day. We had to motor sail the entire way because the wind was on our nose. Shroud will always be on our list of must stops. It is sooooo beautiful. Shroud is in the Exuma Land and Sea Park. There is no fishing but there is […]

When you first arrive in the Bahamas it’s scary to actually see the bottom. Where I come from if you see the bottom that’s a bad thing. You just ran aground!Here water color is a great way to gauge depth even at a distance. If it’s purple there is no bottom reflection at all, it’s […]

We made it back to White Cay this evening and Rusty immediately got in the water and continued to get Louisiana Bayou off of SYL. We will back off the beach and drop anchor behind one of the island until tomorrow. We will work our way to Nassau because our water pump on SYL that […]

The crossing took us about 12 hours to get to the Great Bahama Banks which is about 100 miles of relatively shallow water that is absolutely beautiful. It is the aqua color I first think of when I think of the Bahamas. We had left at about 4:30am but we were not particularly tired. We […]

It’s time to leave the US… The weather and the stars have aligned to create a nice 3 day window of useable winds in the right direction and intensity. The sweet combination should provide a fun comfortable passage. Our first day (early in the morning) we and several other boats staged here in Angelfish Creek […]

After two days of travel on SYL Linda insisted on buying new engines. I was having carburetor issues on the port engine. It was stressful but I would have solved it without it becoming a wallet issue, but I didnt get that chance. I had to agree buying new before a big trip makes more […]