Author: Gerda
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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.…
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Fresh Creek to Big Wood Cay
The winds were favorable and we untied from the dock and set out at slack high tide. According to the internet, the best shelling beach in Andros is called Somerset Beach, which is about a 3 miles south of the inlet to Fresh Creek. There is a US Navy AUTEC Base about 1.5 nm south…
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Florida to Andros in 2024
This year has been very different from other years in the Bahamas. We’ve been here for two months now, and it seems that we are hiding from blows every week! Normally, by late April, the weather has settled down and you have the lazy trade winds blowing from east to south east at 8 to…
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Hello World!
My husband André, and I are both retired and sail on our 1978, 41ft monohull sailboat called Mama-Wana for large parts of the year. Currently we are sailing mostly in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. We “Seas the day, every day” and would love to share our experiences with who ever can benefit or learn…