Category: Underway

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

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 …

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 …

Bugged by Lightning

Position: 24°49’29.1″N 76°14’48.7″W Since our return to the Bahamas last week, I have been scanning the forecasts hoping for a break in what feels like an endless stream of storms. So far I’m not encouraged, but grateful for the few …

What’s Cookin’?

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 …