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Crooked Island Adventures

It’d been a longer than planned stay in the populated Exumas but full of adventure, fun, and good friends that left us with no regrets of the time spent there.

Our friends on S/V Jasaru had finally gotten the right part and were back to being fully operational. Their charter was over and now were making plans for their passage to Puerto Rico, going the opposite way of us. The first stop was the same so we buddy boated over to Calabash bay, Long Island with them. A spot we’d been before but never gets old, the classic Bahamian anchorage with White sand beach and the crystal blue water that seems special made for this part of the world. It also serves as the northern most anchorage on the very Long Island and makes a good staging spot to wrap around the island to the more remote out islands. Which is exactly where we were headed! Continue reading “Crooked Island Adventures”

City of lights, Part II

 

          In the previous blog, I described our race experience as we swept the Georgetown Regatta and we were named boat of the year!

But truth be told our sailing was far from the most impressive boat handling I saw this past week. Our friends on S/V Jasaru had been changing anchorages in Elizabeth harbor when all of the sudden their transmission seized, engine temps went through the roof and they unexpectedly found themselves adrift without an engine!!! Justin and Sherry being well salted sailors were quick to act after a moment of shock, quickly getting there sails up. Now they had their 53′ Pearson cruising along, tacking left and right to make it up the tight channel and avoiding running aground!

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City of Lights part 1

It’s a short sail from Calabash bay in Long Island to Georgetown, Exumas so with a strong wind blowing we slept in, made a wonderful lobster breakfast and headed out around midday. Clipping along at a nice 6-7 kts we were still being passed by the bigger buddy boats we were with but enjoying the sail nonetheless with two fishing lines in the water. Nothing doing on the 25 mile journey though so we pulled in the lines as we neared the entrance to Elizabeth Harbour in Georgetown.

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