For weeks, Peter has been working to install our watermaker. It was tricky integrating this new piece of technology with our dated plumbing system. In addition, the instructions were a somewhat poor t ...
We enjoy an ever-changing musical playlist onboard Dagny, and many tunes suit our present moment. An obvious artist is Jimmy Buffet who sings of his many seafaring and beach adventures. He wrote a f ...
When your home floats beneath you and moves with wind and tide it’s important to know where you are, and more importantly, where you don’t want to be. The Bahamas is often “skinny water sailing ...
We have no ropes onboard Dagny. There are sheets, reefs, rodes, halyards, stays and vangs, outhauls and downhauls, and various other control lines that help Dagny start, stop, and stay on course, but ...
We rounded out our visit to Rock Sound Harbour with a run to get fuel, a stroll through town, and a hike to the nearby Cathedral Caves. The town is filled with the usual Bahamian charm: pretty pain ...
We are anchored near a town for the first time in over 2 weeks. That means provisioning!! Wanting to be near the grocery store, we took the dinghy to a very sketchy boat launch that was carved out of ...
Uneventful is what we hope for in a crossing and today proved to be just that. Our crossing began at dawn as we completed the last-minute preparations needed to “rig for sea.” We securely tied o ...
We’ve spent the last few days here in Normans Pond. We came here because the weather was supposed to be stormy and this is a perfect anchorage for bad weather. We are protected on all sides from win ...
Our final days in George Town were truly delightful as we spent time with friends both old and new as well as doing some exploring on our own. We enjoyed an evening on s/v Mahayana with her crew a ...
There is a sunken sailboat in the bay where we are anchored. It is about 12” under the water and makes for a serious hazard if anyone ran into it. We’ve warned other boaters as they have entered t ...