Author: Gerda
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Mistakes to avoid when planning to retire on a sailboat.
While you’re still planning and dreaming about retiring on a sailboat, there are a lot of things to consider. There’s also a lot of information available on the internet. Most of the information is aimed at much younger people and some of it would only make sense if you’re fresh out of school and haven’t…
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Stocking Island at Georgetown
Stocking Island is the barrier island that separates Great Exuma Island from the Atlantic ocean and forming a lovely protected harbor called Elizabeth Harbor. There are many anchorages on the south side of Stocking Island from Monument Beach all the way to Sand Dollar Beach. The water is quite deep but the holding is good…
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Georgetown
Georgetown is definitely one of the best places in the Exumas for provisioning as well as spare parts, hardware needs, etc. There’s a convenient dinghy dock behind Exumas Market where you can even get free potable water. Across from the dinghy dock is the fuel station that sells both diesel and gasoline. You reach the…
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Flamingo Cay to Georgetown
There were two choices with the available winds – either go to Georgetown through the very shallow Hog Cay Cut about 11nm east of North Channel Rocks near Georgetown, or go through Duck Cay cut and go to the west of Georgetown to Farmer’s Cay through fairly shallow water. The sensible thing to do seemed…
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Buena Vista to Flamingo Cay
Our next destination was Flamingo Cay, which is about 30nm to the north. It was a pretty rough ride with fairly high seas blowing from the east. Man O’ War channel is notorious for being rough in strong easterly winds, and it definitely lived up to it’s reputation. Because of the sea state, we decided…
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Raccoon Cay to Buena Vista Cay
A short, very nice sail with perfect wind and calm seas, blew us right unto the anchorage in Buena Vista Cay. The water is fairly deep almost right up to the beach, but the bottom is covered with flat rocks as you get closer to the beach. We decided to drop anchor about 500 yards…
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Hog Cay to Raccoon Cay
At last the wind direction changed from north east to east and calmed down just a tad. By this time every cruiser was wondering what the weather was doing because the direction and speed of the wind is very different from what it normally is in April. It felt as though we are constantly seeking…
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Hiking trials on Hog Cay, Ragged Islands
One of our favorite past times on Hog Cay is to explore all the hiking trials. Cruisers have spent many hours marking several trails in all sort of manners. Mostly it would be trash that washed up on the beaches that they will hang on trees or put in very conspicuous places to indicate the…
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Lobster Hole Point at Hog Cay, Ragged Island, Bahamas
After a long day and night of sailing, we were glad to finally drop anchor at Lobster Hole Point at Hog Cay. It was around 2am but there weren’t many boats and we’ve been there the year before, so we were familiar with the anchorage and it didn’t present any difficulties. A good night’s rest…
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Big Wood Cay to Hog Cay
As we untied from the buoy in Middle Bight, we headed straight into the ocean to cross the Tongue of the Ocean and hoping to reach Green Cay before night fall. The winds were still fairly strong, so we reefed the mainsail as well as the genoa and did not raise the mizzen at all.…