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 …
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Conception Island
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 …
Long Island
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 …
How much was that pump?
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 …
An update from George Town
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, …
George Town Exumas
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 …
Berry Islands
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 …
Alice Town Bimini
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 …
Marathon and Beyond
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 …
Leaving Key West
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 …
Key West
The weather forecast was predicting a large blow out of the North to arrive in Southern Florida Wednesday evening and last for several days. We decided to cut our stay in the Dry Tortugas National Park short and head back to take cover in Key West. When chatting with other sailors at the park, some …
Dry Tortugas National Park
Sue and I wrapped up everything we needed to do in the Florida panhandle and decided it was time to head south. The evenings were getting cold and I was tired of slipping on ice/frost in the morning on the boat and docks. We do keep up with the Looper community and they were having …
Insurance update
After making many calls and talking to different agents, surveyors, and anyone else in the marine industry that could shed some light on us getting coverage to travel to the Bahamas, I think I may have figured out what’s going on and what I need to do to get coverage. What’s changed since 2019, the …
We’re a sailboat again. And we made a navigation mistake
The riggers were able to step our mast on Friday. There were a few moments of tension as the crane wouldn’t start. Once it did, there were other problems with it. They eventually got everything work, I pulled Odyssey into the haul out slip and our mast was mounted. What took the most amount of …
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Insurance… Things have changed
While we were waiting to get our mast stepped I figured it would be a good time to take care of some administrative tasks for the boat. Namely, getting the Bahamas rider added to my policy. I have the same insurance company and policy that I had in 2019 — the last time I went …
Kurt & Sue Sail 