Author: Dean Cooper

We got up fairly early today to prepare to head south. We went to the fuel dock and refilled the 3 jerry cans as well as the boat tank and got 2 wonderful surprises… Surprise number one, we only used 23.6 gallons of fuel since we left Sunset Bay in Stuart… That’s really amazing since Read More

Went into town to get more hose for the watermaker installation, and went to the Island Bakery where we got some wonderful goodies. As we were heading back to the boat, the “Kryponite” lock we bought to lock up the dinghy would not unlock, so we spent about 30 minutes wrestling with the lock trying Read More

Today we walked a few miles to the other side of the island to the ferry dock and rode the ferry to Hope Town and went to a very nice Methodist Church service. Hope Town seems to be a really nice, small “everyone knows everyone” type of place. The only kerosene, manually operated lighthouse in Read More

Today we did a big re-provisioning trip to the big store here called “Maxwell’s”.  Prices here were much more reasonable than other ports and the selection was much better. They were only about double what things cost in the states, which is about half of what we saw for prices everywhere else. Here’s another “big Read More

Happy Birthday Dean! We left Green Turtle Cay today.  Following our friends on “Amel” we were heading out of the channel during low tide… They supposedly have a 6 foot draft, so when we followed them out the channel we didn’t think twice about running aground, we have a 5.5 foot draft… SURPRISE! We ran Read More

Found that locals here are amazing. We decided to save some $$ by not taking a ferry or renting a golf cart to go the 2-3 miles to town, so we walked. Here’s a picture of Cathy holding up a palm tree along the way… Within less than a half mile, a nice gentleman in Read More