Saturday, March 26, 2011, Day 181. As we were leaving Half Moon Bay, another Holland America cruise ship, the New Amsterdam, arrived. Virtually every cruising boat there was headed north with us to Rock Sound, which turned out to be a very pleasant a…
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Rum Cay
Paul lands a big one!
Wahoo! 60 lbs!
Several of the boats in the Conception anchorage decided to pull anchor Saturday morning and head southeast for Rum Cay. Sumner Point marina was the de…
2011 Selene Exuma Rendezvous
Even though the official start date of the Rendezvous was Sunday, March 13, Big Major's anchorage started filling up with Selenes days ahead. Each day a Selene or two arrived dropping their hook and settling in – even more were heard on the VHF. …
Half Moon Bay, Little San Salvator
Friday, March 25, 2011, Day 180. Little San Salvator is owned by Holland America Lines and used as a destination/playground for their cruse ship guests. The water is very deep (hundreds of feet) within a couple of hundred yards of the beach, which ma…
New Bight, Cat Island
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Day 178. In the morning, when we tried to run the freezer, it kept tripping the breaker. We found salt all over the cooling water pump. Later, we found that a fitting on a purge valve that we had Butch install last summer …
Conception Island – Columbus
Historians argue that Conception Island is the site of Columbus’ second landfall in the new world. Theories abound on just where Columbus first saw the New World, but there seems to be agreement that it was the Bahamas. We can only wonder how the isl…
Thompson Bay to Staniel Cay
We spent a couple of days at Thompson Bay to provision (the pickings were slim), catch up on email (and meet up with friends at Island Breeze) and top off the fuel tanks with a couple hundred gallons of diesel (with the way the fuel prices are rising i…
Black Point
Tuesday dawned with some relief from the winds which had moderated overnight. We made a dinghy run to Staniel to top off the dinghy fuel and fill the spare tank ($5.45/gal) and drop off the trash, then returned to the boat and got underway for Black Po…
Black Point Settlement Again
All of the Selenes left Black Point (except Escapade) to find a different shelter from the expected big blow for the next few days. We raised and secured the dinghy so that we could move quickly if necessary. Susan and Jerry (Ho Hum) stopped by to discuss the best cuts to use to get to George Town…
Staniel Cay
We arrived at Staniel Cay Friday afternoon and anchored just off the marina. We opted for Staniel over Big Majors because a frontal system was predicted to pass and would be accompanied by strong winds. The dinghy ride to the airport in those condition…
