M/V MAERIN

FINALLY! We have some relief from the winds! The winds clocked just a bit, and moderated. Sunday evening it became fairly calm. with winds slowing to 10-15 kts. Welcome relief from the long week of 20+ kt. winds. We can finally travel! 4601 Sunday we did some biking around Rock Sound, riding to the north […]

We arrived in Rock Sound early afternoon Thursday, about a twenty mile jaunt.Not as rough as the previous couple of cruises, so I dropped a line to troll while we cruised. At some point, I had a strike, most likely from a barracuda, since the line went slack and on reeling it in, all that […]

We arrived at South Palmetto Point at about 5:30 PM, got our anchor to set on the first try, and launched the dink. We wanted to get ashore to walk off the days’ frustrations, and get the dogs ashore before dark. The dilapidated pier was not suitable for use at low tide, way too high, […]

Moving on Tuesday morning’s passageweather.com forecast didn’t promise much in the way of diminished winds, in fact the wind is supposed to persist at 15 to 20 kts. with periods of 25 kts. until Friday, so we decided to move from Spanish Wells despite the wind. Bahamas Water We filled our water tanks with city […]

Rumor has it that the Spanish explorers brought their ships here before sailing off for Spain in order to fill their stores with fresh water from the wells here. There is a water bottling plant here, but I don’t believe there’s a relationship. There’s no documented evidence that there were fresh water wells here. But […]

4297 Wednesday morning we left the hustle & bustle of Nassau, and after checking in with Nassau Harbor Control headed out of the harbor and northeast toward Eluthera under heavy overcast skies. Cory & Linda suggested we head that direction and visit at least part of the Eluthera chain before heading to Abaco. We set […]

Our stay in Chub Cay was in a marina, included in the very expensive slip fees was Beacon WiFi access. Beacon is frequently found in many marinas, it’s a sort of franchised internet access, and their connection is usually good, if not costly. So we were able to get updated on weather, some Skype™ calls […]

The run south to Gun Cay and Cat Cay was pleasant. We anchored off the airstrip at Cat Cay, our choice of a jump off point to the Berry chain in the morning. This spot affords easy access to the Bank in the dark, since we plan to start before sunup. Most navigation in the […]

We’ll head out of Bimini today, south to Gun Cay for a couple of hours in Honeymoon Harbor at the urging of a Trawler List subscriber who’s also a paid captain on board a yacht here in Bimini. I spoke to him on the radio yesterday afternoon as he was returning from that area. We’ll […]

4122 Our cruise to Bimini began this morning as planned at o’dark-thirty, that’s 0430 hrs. Yawn…. well, not really, we slept light, anticipating our crossing to the Bahamas. A full moon glowed across the water behind us as Tavernier Key fell into the darkness. Eastbound! We encountered the gulf stream shortly after crossing the reef, […]