Author: Dean Cooper

Left Big Majors at around noon and started an overnight passage to Rum Cay. Things were pretty smooth throughout the day and into the evening, but the winds shifted and increased, and waves picked up as the night wore on.  Overcast skies and the moon not appearing until 4:30am made keeping watch pretty nerve-wracking… As Read More

Today I climbed the mast again, in an attempt to replace the bulbs in the steaming and mooring lights… I discovered that I had the wrong bulbs, and as I was trying to re-assemble the steaming light the wind came up and bumped into the mast, causing all the pieces of the steaming light to Read More

We took the dinghy over to Staniel Cay and walked around the town for a few hours, had a nice lunch in the restaurant and got some gas for the dinghy/generator. The anchorage there was very busy with many mega-yachts and sailboats all around.

Nice day today heading to Big Majors.. where upon arrival we caught up with Reid and Rheta aboard sv:Amel, then we all went to see the “swimming pigs” on the beach. That evening we enjoyed a great chicken curry dinner on their boat and talked about our last few days. It was very refreshing to Read More

Sailed south to try and get the bad taste out of our mouths from Allen Cay. Anchored behind a big rock island called Elbow Cay, and had a great night, much needed and appreciated.

The winds and waves picked up substantially by about 9am and we started slipping backwards towards the rocks behind the boat, so we had to pull up the anchor and find another place to anchor. In high winds and waves we tried several times to get the anchor to hold where it wasn’t too close Read More

Took a brief dinghy ride to Leaf Cay (We’re anchored only about 75 feet from the shore of Leaf Cay) and were met on the beach by at least a dozen iguanas. They’re the largest indigenous animal in the Bahamas. They came up pretty close to you hoping for some munchies, but were wary and Read More

Today we sailed to Allen Cay, pretty brisk wind and waves, we got up to 8.2 knots. While were were underway, we saw the kayak moving around on the mount, eventually started just hanging from the straps. We hove-to and discovered that the kayak mounting brackets had bent so far that they were completely straight… Read More

Today we slept in, reconfigured jerry jugs for fuel so they’re more secure, Cathy did a load of laundry using R2D2, fixed a bimini pole mount that had broken during our icky passage on Thursday, I reconfigured the ports on our navigation electronics gateway to make it possible to connect more equipment (future projects) and Read More

It’s been a pleasant but windy day so we slept in and had a great pancake breakfast. After breakfast I finished up the watermaker installation. Today we’ve made 5.79 gallons of water! It’s amazing, it tastes JUST LIKE WATER! With winds gusting up to 30 mph, we drug anchor at one point and had to Read More