Having successfully navigated our way through the narrows of Current Cut, we anchored off the island for a couple of days waiting for the weather to settle down and explore the little community of Current. Modern cruising is an episodic …
Position: Out there – way, way, out there… Here’s what really happened on the hellscape that is the Planet of the Apes. Once you’ve been there, there’s no going home…
Join us as we increase the pucker factor with a 25 knot wind, four foot seas and a channel as narrow as it is shallow. We timed our transit for slack water, at least we hoped it would be slack. …
The Glass Window was a natural land bridge joining two parts of Eleuthera. Winslow Homer painted it back in the 1880s when it was still intact. These days the rocks have tumbled under the weight of storms and been replaced …
For the past couple of weeks we’ve worked our way slowly up Eleuthera, aka Urethra (as my Ms. Malaprop [aka Carol] calls it). There’s lots to like about this 110 mile long island, especially if you’re trying to get away …
There’s not much history on the sleepy settlement of Tarpum Bay. We know that the impressive white and blue-trimmed church overlooking the harbor was built in 1849 and appears to have been in business ever since. Other buildings date from …
There are those that argue the purpose of life is to propagate it, that everything else is mere window dressing. And what of love? Isn’t our destiny to fall in love and fulfill our desires? Perhaps it is, if mother …
A little video of life on board and under sail. One of those perfect days when you want to sit back, relax and make a music video. In this case it was Bach or Duran Duran. Bach wins. In Duran …
Position: 24°10’20.3″N 76°26’38.1″W Periodically people ask us what we do for food on Aleta. The short answer is we do much the same as we do at home, we shop, we store, we cook, we eat. It’s a relatively simple …
