Tag: sailing in retirement
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Bennett’s Harbor – last stop on Cat Island
Bennet’s Harbor is only about ten nautical miles north of The Cove, but the other anchorages in between, didn’t seem to have any way to get on land by dinghy. There’s a gorgeous beach and very cute houses along the beach at Bennett’s Harbor as well as a government dock for the mailboat. Most of…
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Fernandez Cay, Smiths Bay and The Cove, Cat Island, Bahamas
Another short sail took us to Fernandez Cay, where we anchored in front of a few nice houses with another lovely creek and a few small cays where we went snorkeling. Fernandez Cay had an interesting swim through, a fairly nice selection of fish, nice corals and when we went there was no current, so…
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Slow travel through Cat Island, Bahamas
As we are sailing very slowly for very short distances, we have the unique opportunity to explore the entire island quite extensively. Our next stop was at Joe Sound Creek, where we anchored, took the dinghy up the very shallow creek and then went ashore to pick up some shells. We could walk over the…
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Georgetown to Cat Island
A pretty nice weather window opened up and we decided to leave early in the morning from the south of Fowl Cay to sail the 48 nautical miles to Hawk’s Nest Point on Cat Island. As we were on our way through Elizabeth Harbor, three other boats were leaving in the same direction, which always…
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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…