Discretion is the Best Policy

January 31, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2014, Bahamas, BVI's, Engine, Long Island, Offshore Passage | 10 Comments

Friday, January, 31, 2014 It’s 115pm and we just arrived at Cape Santa Maria on the North end of Long Island and a cell phone connection so the first time that we have had internet since we passed San Salvador Island going east. As those that have been following our Spot messages, you know that […]

It’s a GO

January 27, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2014, Bahamas, BVI's, Caribbean, Offshore Passage | tagged Chris Parker, Passages | 15 Comments

Monday, January 27 Well we talked to Chris Parker and we can still go to BVI’s going off shore. First waypoint is 26N 72W. We left at 733am. We have an OK message going to Chris Parker so he can give us weather based on our position. Don’t be worried if it takes us a […]

Stay in Thompson Bay, Long Island, Bahamas

January 27, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2014, Bahamas, Cruising Friends, Long Island, Provisioning | tagged anchorage, Atlantic Ocean, Beaches, beans, boat projects, dinner, email, FaceTime, Farmer market, fishing, food, Ham radio, hamburger beans, jerry jugs, Long Island Breeze, Magic Jack, Preparations, restaurant, washing clothes, Weather | 5 Comments

I sit here today, Sunday, January 26, as one of the last three boats left in the anchorage as the other boats, which had numbered 15 at their peak this week, leave for other destinations. We think there is a big group of boats going to Calabash Bay and then tomorrow to Conception Island. I’m […]

Excitement in Red Shank Cay

January 17, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2013 | 2 Comments

Thursday, January 16 We’ve been listening to Chris Parker weather as usual in the morning and expecting a cold front to come through with NW winds. At first they were predicted to be 10-15 kts and we were planning on staying at Monument Beach anchorage off Stocking Island. Two things happened since yesterday’s weather. 1. […]

Fishing and Excitement in Pipe Creek

January 13, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2014, anchorages, Bahamas, Blackpoint, Cruising Friends, Exhuma Bahamas | tagged anchorage, boat projects, burgers, fishing line, food, getting water, Groceries, Laundry, Lorraines's Cafe, restaurant, Rockport Laundry, Scorpio's, Sloop John Dee, WiFi | 3 Comments

Friday, January 3 It rained this morning and the winds have clocked to the North at 6-8 kts. We get in the dinghy and try trolling. First time I hooked something a combination of factors caused the line to break and for me to lose my favorite lure. For one thing the tide was going […]

Georgetown, Exumas, Bahamas

January 12, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2014, anchorages, Bahamas, Exhuma Bahamas, Georgetown, Weave Palm Fronds | tagged anchorage | 7 Comments

Sunday, January 12, 2014 It’s a warm morning in Georgetown with <5kts wind as we sit under the trees at Volleyball Beach watching men groom the volleyball courts (leveling the sand) while we wait the pig roast to start. There aren’t many people here yet, but expect it to get busy. There are kids swinging […]

Staniel Cay to Pipe Creek

January 4, 2014 · by Lorraine | in 2013, 2014, Bahamas, Cruising Friends, Exhuma Bahamas, Passages, Pipe Creek, Repairs, Staniel Cay | tagged Bread, Head sail, Holidays, mega yachts, New Years Eve, Normans Cay, Pipe Creek, Staniel Cay Yacht Club | 2 Comments

Wednesday, December 31, 2013 We left Normans Cay at 8am on a warm sunny day with wind 7-8 kts from the east. SV Going Knots and SV Angelica, both French Canadians, left within minutes of us. I can tell we have been here awhile as I saw a school of minnows and 2 gar fish […]