Author: Mark Haskell
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Intuition back in the USA
We arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 0936. Covered 150 nm from Great Sale Cay, Bahamas in almost exactly 24 hours. We’re all well and tired. Need to clean the flying fish off the deck and go check in with customs and immigration. Mark
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Intuition at Sea
Left Great Sale at 0926 this morning headed home to the USA. We’ve had a good run so far. We passed Matanilla Shoal at 1740 and watched the water depth drop from 30 feet off our scale as we left the Little Bahama Banks. We were in the company of Grateful Attitudes and Our Turn…
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Double Breasted Cay
After lots of rain on Wednesday, Thursday dawned without a ripple on White Sound. We’ve been getting anxious to start moving, so took the opportunity to head North to stage for jumping back to the United States. It was a hard choice because we would have liked to explore the cruiser friendly, Manjack Cay, but…
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Waiting at Green Turtle
Friday NOAA issued its last statement on Andrea, one of the earliest named storms ever. Let’s hope this early start doesn’t signify an overly active hurricane season. Our Noah waved goodbye to the kids from Iceni as they headed out towards the Northern Abacos to explore some of the more remote cays and stage for…
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More at Green Turtle Cay
We’re still at Green Turtle Cay, preparing the boat for crossing back to the United States. Tuesday we washed the boat and changed the fuel filter and cleaned the raw water filter. Tuesday the waves were still rolling in from the Atlantic and we walked over to the beach again to observe. The crews of…
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Green Turtle Club
Sunset Over New Plymouth After enjoying the festival here at Green Turtle we switched our attention to the weather. Predictions for strong winds led us to call for a slip at the Green Turtle Club in protected White Sound. The marina filled up shortly after we arrived, but we have great neighbors in Jule an…
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