We were seriously beginning to think this day may never come. Well…at least for this season. We’d even started toying around with the idea of heading down to the Florida Keys instead if there wasn’t a decent weather window for crossing to the Bahamas soon. Of course the Keys...
Voyages
Escape From Indiantown
Aaaahhhh….we finally escaped the friendly grip of the Indiantown Marina Party Posse! After a relatively uneventful 19 mile motor down the St. Lucie Canal on the Okeechobee Waterway, we dropped the hook in the Pendarvis Cove Anchorage in Stuart, Florida. Hard to believe that it had been almost nine...
Crossing the Gulf Stream – Take Two!
Those of you who have been following us for a while may remember that last year we hung out in Lake Worth for about three weeks waiting on a weather window to cross to the Abacos in the northern Bahamas, and when we finally got our window, conditions ended...
Fish for breakfast?!?
Well…here I am, behind on blog posts yet again! Those of you who also follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter know that we are now at our home in Michigan for the next few months sitting out hurricane season, visiting with friends and family, and enjoying all the creature...
Crossing the Gulf Stream
FINALLY, the day we’d been waiting for had arrived! It was time to leave the U.S., cross the Gulf Stream, and realize our dream of sailing to the Bahamas. We’d headed to bed early the night before, but had a VERY hard time sleeping, and the alarm going off...
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bridges!
Or shoals…or live firing at Marine Corps bases…or opposing currents…or eight foot tides…or high winds when we’re at anchor… Everything doesn’t always come up roses when traveling down the ICW in a sailboat that needs 53 feet of clearance above it and 6 feet below! On the day that...
Dismal? I Don’t Think So!
At the beginning of the ICW we had to make a choice. We could have either taken the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal (also known as the Virginia Cut) or followed the Dismal Swamp Canal. With a name like Dismal Swamp, it was an easy choice for us! 😉 At...
Goodbye Chesapeake…Hello ICW!
After a cloudy, chilly, rainy, and you guessed it…foggy trip from Reedville, VA to Deltaville, VA we spent we spent the next three nights at anchor waiting out a bunch of rain and some heavy winds. On the fourth morning, the winds had died down, so we made our...
Safety Check in the Fog!
As we pulled away from the Solomons area to make our way to Reedville, VA, it was overcast and a little foggy. We carefully made our way back out into the Patuxent River and under the bridge as we headed back towards the Chesapeake. It was very still and...
Hiding from Joaquin
We would have loved to have had some time to check out Cape May, but we were now racing to hide from hurricane Joaquin, so Jim got busy checking tide tables and currents. We had two issues to contend with. First of all, we were looking for low tide...