April 29 - Kind of rolly overnight. Swells come in from the ocean even though you wouldn’t think they would given that we’re in close to a lee shore. Apparently they swing around the Cay when they come in through the cut. It’s a nice morning and when two of the four boats in the inner harbor leave we go back in to investigate anchoring there. We drop the hook in about 11 feet of water in the middle of the cut at middle tide. There’s a ridge in the middle so we have more water as we swing to… Read the Full Log Entry

April 22 - Leave N. Cat Cay in light easterly winds at 6:30 a.m. Wind is supposed to be N/NW, which would be good for our course. East is "death". We’re heading directly into the sun as it rises, and it’s quite a sight. We put up jib to give it a try but our course is too close to the wind and we take it in almost immediately. We’re motoring at about 5.5 knts. and will not make Chub Cay in daylight at this rate. Just have to wait and see what develops. The water along our course over the… Read the Full Log Entry

April 21 - Wind is down as somewhat as predicted and we expect to leave for N. Cat Cay middle of the day. Atlantic still has substantial swells from the last few days, but it’s only a ten mile trip onto the Great Bahama Bank to position ourselves to go to Chub Cay tomorrow. Our neighbor leaves for Gun Cay at about 11:00 and we leave for adjacent N. Cat Cay at 11:45. Departure from dock is uneventful but trip out of the channel requires care as ocean swells are coming in as is tide and tide… Read the Full Log Entry

April 16 - Slept until almost 9:30 a.m. Guess we were more than a little tired. Nothing planned for the day and I’m all about doing as little as possible. Kryss and Steve and Jane rent a golf cart to go to Resorts World a new major time-share facility (numerous small houses), casino and marina at the South end of North Bimini Island. It is still very much under construction. But for that, there’s nothing much on the Island and we spend most of our time reading, trying to figure out the… Read the Full Log Entry

April 15 - Night (14th) is uneventful except for the young partyers who get back to the boat on the other side of the dock from us at 3:35 a.m. with a girl screaming at the top of her lungs (I first thought someone had woken up to find that some had died)and then playing rap at top volume for about a half hour. I’d identify the song but its lyrics are so crude that I know I would offend some readers - for those in the know, think of a female very explicitly telling you want she wants you to… Read the Full Log Entry

April 14 - After spending weeks and weeks buying food, drink and dry goods and then trying to find places to store them all in the boat, and an equal number of weeks of doing repairs and upgrades, we’re ready to go, or as ready as we’ll ever be, and we have a good weather window.  We have guests aboard for this trip, Jane and Steve Koenig, our friends from Boca, who sail out of Newport, RI.  We depart Boca Raton at 7:00 a.m. with a rising tide and we take the ICW to the Hillsboro… Read the Full Log Entry

Dec. 5 - It's finally sunny and warm and we do a bunch of chores and then walk around town in the afternoon.　 Not a bad town but like most, all of it is the ICW facing main street, after which there isn’t much. There’s a humungous new library and playing field complex. A lot of money has been thrown at the downtown lately. There’s also a terrific art deco Post Office. Except for being much smaller, it really reminds us a lot like the Lexington Avenue Post Office in NYC. When we return to the… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 29-Dec. 1 - Nothing much of interest to report. Shopped for food, did laundry and did some legal work. Plan to leave on the outside for Fernandina Beach tomorrow morning.

Dec. 2 - Wind and seas are down and we motor (next to no wind and what there is is on our nose) on the outside to Fernandina Beach. What pleasure not to have to worry about depth. Pass Fort Clinch at the mouth of the Fernandina Inlet. Reputed to be in exceptionally good shape because it was never involved in any… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 24-28. Welder just got a huge job from his biggest customer, so he has no time for us. I’m exploring other options for straightening the bow pulpit. The weather is just as bad as they predicted, and then the Thanksgiving Nor’easter came through with even bigger winds and lots of rain, so all and all a very dreary couple of days holed up in Brunswick, Georgia. We’re on a west facing T-dock and the West wind gusted all day on the 27th into the 30s scaring the “stuff” out of me, but there… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 17 - Leave early for St. Catherine’s Sound. Wind is light and seas calm. Whatever wind we had dies when we leave the exit channel and turn South, so it’s the "iron jenny" (engine for the non-sailors) today. Our course takes us right by the sea buoy at the Tybee Roads (Savannah River) entrance and as we approach it, dense fog sets in. Savannah is a major shipping port and I am riveted to the AIS (Automatic Identification System) targets entering and leaving the entrance channel, all of… Read the Full Log Entry