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A Pleasantly Uneventful Run

All the way to Nassau.Really nothing happened to write about other than it was a nice, relatively flat, and a short cruise. 4hrs running and we were tying up at Atlantis Marina. We passed by a couple of Manatees (Kadey Krogens that is.) and took pics f…

‘Ocean Pearl’…As far as stories go…this is a good one!

Greetings to all –
Back in the saddle…Unlike our last posting to this blog, this entry has a good message!!
For quite a while I wasn’t certain that there would even be another posting to the ‘Grey Pearl’ Blog. The fire that destroyed our boa…

‘Ocean Pearl’…As far as stories go…this is a good one!

Greetings to all –
Back in the saddle…Unlike our last posting to this blog, this entry has a good message!!
For quite a while I wasn’t certain that there would even be another posting to the ‘Grey Pearl’ Blog. The fire that destroyed our boa…

TURKISH GOVERNMENT MAKES IT A LITTLE EASIER FOR CRUISERS AS ENVOY CRUISES THE AEGEAN

We’ve heard that the Turkish Ministry of Interior has eased its position regarding residency permits for cruisers. In a document published 14/5/12 they openly state that cruisers are beneficial to their economy, and that’s the reason for the change…

Plans are just that…

Plans… detailed proposals for doing or achieving something.Actions and reactions, that’s were the rubber hits the road.The plan was to wake earlier and run hard to Nassau. That’s what we did.  As we slowly scratched our way out of Bimini at low …

The Middle Third

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
LATITUDE: 27-41.16N
LONGITUDE: 114-53.24W

We are in Turtle Bay, Bahia San Bartolome or Bahia Tortuga, having made 4 passages over 5 days from Bahia Santa Maria. This area is known as the windiest part of the outside passage and …

The Middle Third

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
LATITUDE: 27-41.16N
LONGITUDE: 114-53.24W

We are in Turtle Bay, Bahia San Bartolome or Bahia Tortuga, having made 4 passages over 5 days from Bahia Santa Maria. This area is known as the windiest part of the outside passage and …

1st Day At The Beach

Bimini has very nice beaches and we thought this would be the perfect time to let Muddy check it out. Radar has always loved the water and we were hoping Mud would also. He did love the soft sand and had lots of fun scampering around, but the surf scar…

Bimini layover

We’ve never pulled into Bimini before. For whatever reason we’ve always stopped at the next little island south, Cat Cay, if we didn’t want to pull an all-nighter or needed to wait for the stream to settle before crossing back to the states.Before pull…

Solomon Atoll, Chagos

On the short trip from Peros Banhos to Solomon, we trolled a lure. We caught one Bonito after another. We threw back (released live) the first two and then we kept the last one. Coming across the reef pass into Solomon, we also caught a toothy barra…