In a nutshell, my mother passed away and I took a break from writing. Our fun adventure turned into a race to get home. I’m doing better now and will complete our story. For those who come to this site to read about all the good times, you might want to wait for the next… Read more

Conception is an uninhabited island that is part of the National Land and Sea Park. There are no services, no rangers, no cell phones, nothing. When we arrived, there was only one other boat at the anchorage. It was a super yacht and as such, anchored in much deeper water far away from us. We… Read more

Sue and I had our fun in George Town and decided it was time to move on. We had a great wind forecast to move over to Salt Pond on Long Island. A strong blow out of the north was in the forecast for later in the week and Salt Pond provided excellent protection. Once… Read more

Our parts finally came in from the US and I knew we were going to be paying a premium, and we did. Maybe even more than a premium. Looking back, it would have been cheaper to sail to Florida, buy my stuff, sail back, and re-pay to check in again. It would have been cheaper… Read more

We are still anchored in George Town waiting for our parts to be delivered before we move on. Occasionally, you may see us move out to sea and then come back. We prefer to make water in the ocean not in the harbor and also prefer to empty our black water tank in the ocean,… Read more

I haven’t written in a while because we’ve been on the move trying to make our way to George Town in the Exumas. We did make a stop in Nassau to go pump shopping and try to get some laundry done. The backup pump I used to replace the broken pump for our water maker… Read more

We had a break in the weather and left Bimini to head over to Bullock Harbor in the Berry Islands. Unfortunately, this is a 14 hour trip, meaning we’d either have to leave in the dark or arrive in the dark. I really didn’t want to do an over night passage again. Given the start… Read more

We left Marathon for an overnight sail to Bimini. The conditions were not perfect and we were only able to sail about a quarter of it, but we knew that going in. Between the holidays and the upcoming forecast, we thought it best to leave when we did. When we left Marathon, the navigation software… Read more

It’s currently crab and lobster season in Florida and pots are out everywhere. These traps lay on the ocean bottom and have a trailer line attached with a floating buoy. Odyssey is a full keel boat with a skeg rudder and a bar running from the rudder to the keel to protect the prop so… Read more

We spent an uncomfortable week in the Key West mooring field waiting for the weather to break. The winds were high and out of the northeast, the one direction the field doesn’t have protection from. White caps and rollers were whipped up from the constant blow. Some evenings reaching 30 knots. Trips to shore in… Read more