M/V MAERIN

We expected our weather window to look good for travel on Tuesday or Wednesday, and now it’s Thursday, so the window didn’t materialize as predicted. Now our best window appears to be Friday-Saturday, so we are making plans to escape New Providence at last. We plan to leave Friday afternoon, and do an overnight run […]

Now that the repairs are completed, plus every other maintenance task that needed to be done, again we wait for the wind!! It’s howling out of the east at up to 30 kts, the result of the high pressure system that has stalled over the central Bahamas. That high is also pumping the warm air […]

5030 5033 Monday morning we rented a car to reprovision, see some sights, refill our propane, and get rid of 5 gallons of engine oil drainings. The engine oil disposal was the most difficult part. The service stations certainly must do something with their waste oil, but none seemed willing to take any. A chance […]

4970 Our run from Alan’s Cay was with a quartering sea, our first cruise of any distance where we have not been banging head seas all day. The ride is a bit gentler, still a lot of motion, but the stabilizers take out most of the roll, so the motion is much more smooth than […]

4880 Up anchor this morning, Tuesday bound for Alan’s Cay, as a stopover to Nassau. Not that we were all that cranked about Nassau in the first place, but Maerin is ill, so Nassau’s the place to be.  Our generator heat exchanger is leaking, seawater is in the engine cooling circuit, so a repair must […]

Posts for the past couple of days have been put on hold. My dad of 87 years was hospitalized with endocarditis, bacterial growth around his mitral valve. The source of the infection is undetermined, and really has little bearing on his condition other than the consequenses. After undergoing tests early last week, more information revealed […]

5006 We enjoyed the Exuma Land & Sea Park and Warderick Wells, and after some discussion, decided to move a bit further south. The game plan was to head to Staniel Cay as our turning point. Staniel is the site of the Thunderball Grotto, and is on the cruisers’ required destinations list, so we dropped […]

The moon is waxing around towards full again, and the moonlight is surprisingly bright here where there is no other light, save the occasional light from the park rangers’ billets and the anchor lights on the boats in the mooring field. Our dinghy trails silently tonight, no wind generated waves slapping on the hull of […]

4735 Well, the wind machine has finally shut down! Today was delightfully warm, with temps in the 80’s and winds light and variable. Hoo-ray! After 3 weeks of cursing the winds, we are simply thrilled to be experiencing such beautiful weather. We spent some time this morning walking the dogs along the beach, the only […]

Thursday night will likely be noted as the most miserable night at anchor since leaving Middle River in November. Our holding was secure, but the winds blew up to 20-25 kts. out of the SSE, creating a surge of about 3 or 4 ft. Maerin became a funhouse of gyrating decks and bulkheads. Sleep was […]