back to marsh harbor

Start Time: 0645
End Time:1545
Cruise From: Lanyard Cay
Cruise To: Marsh Harbor
Weather/Sea Conditions: Great 80 degree weather. Sunny and calm seas a little rough by the cuts to the ocean but manageable

Captain's Log: While heading out of little harbor heading to the Elurathia our buddy boat, windkist had engine problems. We came back in to Lanyard Cay. We dropped the anchor and we are waiting for windkist to get their engine running. We will head north for repairs to windkist. We towed windkist back to rocky point. We will tow them the rest of the way with the dinghy, then come back and bring the Butorfleoge into Marsh Harbor. Under anchor now off rocky point . Motored back to marsh harbor.
NOTE: The Butorfleoge and the dinghy handled like a champ with no problems what so ever. We couldn't be more prouder of a vessal than we are right now.

Lanyard Cay, across little Harbor

Start Time: 0855
End Time:1500
Cruise From: Hopetown
Cruise To: Lanyard Cays
Weather/Sea Conditions: 5 knot winds, rolling seas. Sunny and pleasat

Captain's Log: Heading south!!! Once out of Hopetown, we set the sails and sailed. We had top speed of 4.1 knots and averaged @ 2 knots. Slow but beautiful. Felt great going under sail. Motored to dump sanitaries and catch up with Windkist. Placed the car forward until we were 2 and 3/4 holes from the front. Boat speed encreased to 3.9 knots. Back on sail. We motored a couple times as we felt the area was too narrow once and we werre to far back from Windkist. Nice sailing and a beautiful day.
Note: We were having trouble getting the CQR set anchor. It kept laying on it's side. We switched back to the bruce.

Hope Town

Start Time: 0140
End Time:1630
Cruise From: Marsh Harbor
Cruise To: Hope Town
Weather/Sea Conditions: 7 knot winds, rolling seas. Sunny and pleasat trip of @ 6 1/2 km

Captain's Log: Un eventful trip just like we like it! Saw Driven and talked to Chuck for a while. On the trip over, Sue saw a big shark! Nice to see from the deck of the boat and not while swimming. lol We stayed on a mooring ball as the cold front was coming through and we wanted to be safe and tucked into a nice protective cove. Hope town had all this. Oh yea, and a beautiful lighthouse.

In hopetown waiting for warmer weather

It is getting cold here! It is down to the upper sixties at night and only 78 in the day. Once we gett this cold front out, south we are a headin mon !!!! We came over to Hopetown to stay on a mooring ball as the wind would make it un safe to stay in Marsh Harbor. above is a picture of a curly tail.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

Just wishing you a happy birthday and we hope you get well soon!!!!
With all my love
Captain Sue & Captain Bob

Leaving Marsh Harbor

We are heading to Hope town today at @ 1 o'clock. Hopefully, we will find a better inter net access there. Sue saw this wale and took a picture of it. Funny how a whale can have a snorkel instead of a blow hole. This picture was taken at Great Guana Cay. The weather has been in the 80's during the day and cool in the evenings. Great sleeping weather.

just an update

Just an up date on what we have done. On January 11th. We went to a protective cove and learned how to snorkel without drowning ourselves. We did real good on the first lesson. On January 12th we went to mermaid reef and snorkeled over the reef. Sue took some pictures of the fish swimming on the reef. We won't know how they turned out until we find a place to get the pictures placed on a disk for down loading on the computer. We have been hanging around Marsh Harbor waiting for the weather to make a safe passage south. No hurries mon!!!!

IN MARSH HARBOR, BAHAMAS

We are in Marsh Harbor. There is a cool front coming our way so we will stay put until it passes. That will be either Tuesday or Wednesday. The cold front will put our temperatures way down to the low 70's. We will survive the cold and wait for the warm weather which puts us into the 80's. After we leave here, we hope to head to the Exummas. We are having the time of our lives and are enjoying every minute of our adventure. We are on Island Time now which is to say we never really know what day of the week it is or what day of the month it is. I do carry my watch as tides are very important and we need to know when the high and low tide is. If you double click on the pictures, they will enlarge and you will see a sailboat in the branches of the picture.

Junk a noo

Now this is how to spend New Years Day. There was a lot of things to see and boy were they making some noise. The dancing and drumming was great. They even had an evil spirit. The kids would sneak up and touch the spirit and then take off running.

Da Crossing Mon

This is us crossing the Gulf Stream. It was a little rough at first. Later it settled down to a nice roll. The crossing was great and but for the excitement of crossing to the Bahamas, uneventful.
We were in Great sail for one day then headed to Green Turtle.

WE ARE HERE SAFE AND SOUND

Just a short message to let all know we made it safe and sound. We can't send pictures as this is a very shaky e-mail connection. WE are safe and sound. We will post with pictures once we find a better connection. We are at Green turtle waiting to head to Nun Jack for some snorkeling and diving. Then once the Whale settles down, we will head south and work our way north.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Bob & Sue

WE ARE HERE SAFE AND SOUND

Just a short message to let all know we made it safe and sound. We can't send pictures as this is a very shaky e-mail connection. WE are safe and sound. We will post with pictures once we find a better connection. We are at Green turtle waiting to head to Nun Jack for some snorkeling and diving. Then once the Whale settles down, we will head south and work our way north.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Bob & Sue