All at Sea, Part 2
“…and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, then that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of heaven?” – Alexandre Dumas, …
All at Sea, Part 1
Position: 26°32’48.1″N 77°04’05.3″W With our newfound confidence in estimating the unpredictability of the weather and subtropical depression Alberto wreaking havoc in Florida, we decided that we better pad our schedule back to the United States by a few days. Tom, aka …
The Abacos or Bust
Position: 25°24’08.5″N 76°47’28.4″W Having successfully navigated our way through the narrows of Current Cut, we anchored off the island for a couple of days while we waited for the weather to settle. We dinghyed ashore and explored the little community …
Planet of the Apes Redux
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…
Video: Current Cut
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. …
Video: Glass Window
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 …
Urethra? Where’s Urethra?
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 …
Tarpum Bay
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 …
Boat Lust
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 …