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  • Hiking trials on Hog Cay, Ragged Islands

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    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…

  • Big Wood Cay to Hog Cay

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    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.…

  • Morgan’s Bluff to Fresh Creek

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    After a few blissful days at Morgan’s Bluff it was time to move on. The day began with lovely wind blowing from the east, and we wanted to go south, so that’s perfect, so we set sail early. Before we turned the corner to go south and around the treacherous Morgan’s Bluff, the engine started…

  • Florida to Andros in 2024

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    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…

  • Is cruising the right option for me after Retirement?

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    Oftentimes we would be daydreaming about the ultimate freedom we’ll have once we retire. We’ve worked hard and now deserve to do exactly as we please. We’ve served everyone around us for far too long, our boss, our employees, our kids, our grand kids and everyone else that came in our paths. Now we’ve had…

  • Hello World!

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    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…

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