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About Duet

Duet is a 1987 50 ft. Gulfstar/CSY sloop that my wife, Kryss, and I purchased in the fall of 2012. We are her third owners. Her second owner, now our good friend, John Strater, cruised her in the Bahamas and along the East Coast. She underwent an extensive refit and equipment upgrade in East Boothbay, Maine during the winter, spring and early summer of 2013 under the expert hand of master mariner and shipwright, Paul Parks. We began sailing her south on July 23, 2013 and arrived at her then hailing port in Boca Raton on December 11, 2013. Since then we have cruised her in local Florida waters as far as the Dry Tortugas, in a good portion of the Bahamas, from home (now Punta Gorda, Florida) to the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Caribbean Islands, and then to Curacao, Bonaire and Panama, back to Punta Gorda, and then to Isla Mujeres and Belize. These posts run from our most recent passages to our earliest and we will continue to post excerpts from our daily log and pictures to this website as we sail. We welcome e-mails from our friends and those who just happen to stumble upon our website and may want to become our friends.

Short Trip April 2015

Posted by Andy on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 14:14

4/15-Left YARCOBR at around 4:00 p.m. (high tide) and anchored in North East corner of Lake Boca. Plenty of water and quite a few sailboats.

4/16-Left Lake Boca at around 7:00 a.m. and went to Hillsboro by way of the ICW. It was high tide and I was tempted to go out of Boca Inlet but windlass wouldn't pull anchor over roller (swivel was stiff) and I wouldn't go out into the ocean until I resolved the problem. During trip to Hillsboro I used main halyard winch to bring anchor the rest… Read the Full Log Entry

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Short but Sweet

Old Bahama Bay to Boca

Posted by Andy on Friday, June 27, 2014 - 13:16

June 20 - Hang out for the day at the pool and at the Little Bahama Bank beach at Old Bahama Bay Marina catching our breath. It would have been a perfect day to go across the Stream to the States, but we need a rest and we had planned to stay for two/three nights anyway. Weather report is benign, so it shouldn’t matter.

June 21 - Rent a car and tour the Island. Go to Grand Lucayan National Park which has a very extensive cave system (we could only see into the openings, not enter-… Read the Full Log Entry

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End of the trip

Underway from Green Turtle Cay to Old Bahama Bay

Posted by Andy on Friday, June 27, 2014 - 13:10

June 17 - Left for Crab Cay anchorage at North end of Great Abaco Island in sunshine after a brief rain shower and pull into the anchorage with dark clouds threatening to the South. We’re out of the Sea of Abaco and onto the Little Bahama Bank. Winds were light and passage was uneventful with jib and “iron jenny”. Could have just sailed but wanted to get into the anchorage before the typical afternoon thunderstorms came. Current summer weather pattern is not to our liking.

June 18 -… Read the Full Log Entry

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Circling back to leave for the mainland

Green Turtle Cay

Posted by Andy on Friday, June 27, 2014 - 13:04

June 14 - Nice sunny morning and we set off for Green Turtle Cay in light winds. Predictions are for winds to build to steady 15/20 for the next few days so it’s a good time to go through Whale Cay passage before seas can build. (Unless you are a very shallow draft vessel you must go through Whale Cay passage to pass further north through the Sea of Abaco. Whale Cay passage takes you out into the ocean around Whale Cay and back into the Sea of Abaco through a narrow pass and it is notorious… Read the Full Log Entry

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Anchorage has resident green turtle