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Morning Glory showed up at Big Major last night just after dark, but I was already in bed so I didn’t know it!.  Ted swung by on the dinghy but my lights were out so he didn’t knock.  When I got up this morning I rode over to Mike’s boat, during the trip to Jumanji […]

Dinner on “Forever Young” last night was quite the event.  The food and company were equally excellent.  The first course was lightly seared mahi sushi, lightly crusted and served with soy sauce and fresh ginger.  The finish was a light citrus flavor combined with the olive oil the morsels were seared with.  Accompanying the sushi […]

The sail today was 20 miles of fun, we had enough wind to sail nicely but almost no waves…. it was typical Exumas sailing with the added bonus of competing with another Seawind.  We traded information (and misinformation) regarding sail settings all day.  Part of the fun was the friendly taunting on the radio during […]

We are listening to Chris Parker, winds look calm today and tomorrow, we will see a front with stronger winds Sunday and Monday.  I’m looking out of the front window, watching a purple sunrise over the trees of Shroud Cay while Jono is getting SYL ready to go for me to get underway.  He already […]

Last night we went to sleep on an absolutely flat blanket of blue water.. barely a breeze.   The weather has been comfortable the whole trip so far, yesterday evening was the first time we seemed hot on the boat,.  Our day journey through the mangroves in the open boats provided a lot of sun, so […]

This morning SYL pulled out at 8AM for another massive ambergris hunt.  Jono is so pumped he can’t stand it. We thought we would run the eastern side of Highborne Cay today since the wind was down to look for ambergris.  Jumanji pulled out a bit later to find us a nice anchorage at Shroud […]

Jonathon and I moved the boat to the South end of the pond this morning.  We didn’t crank up the motors, we just let the jib pull us off anchor and coasted up into the new location in silence.  Our goal was a change of scenery.. and we wanted to explore southern Normans Cay today […]

Last night Jono and I went on top of the boat to stargaze.  Light pollution is very low in this part of the world so it’s a great venue to watch the night sky.  As expected it was grand… we saw orbiting satellites and shooting stars moving among the blanket of other worldly / apparently […]

What a great sail today.  In short we left Nassau (awesome in itself) and sailed a sweet downwind reach in less than 2’ers.. we outran a big catamaran (horizoned him) we got so far ahead we couldn’t even see him.  Current was with us all day.. and – we didn’t break anything!  We got to […]

We departed just before 7AM from our picturesque anchorage to brave the wild ocean again (hopefully tamer this time) toward Nassau.  It was….. we left in 10 knots of wind on the beam then it went behind us and blew no more than 15 true, so we only saw 8 or 9 knots on the […]