Category: Sailing
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Merritt Island to New Smyrna Beach, FL
Haulover Canal Bridge Intuition Log – 26 May 2007 Merritt Island, FL to New Smyrna Beach, FL Leaving Harbortown at 0904 despite the objections of Noah (there were lots of kids in the marina) we were out the barge canal and back in the ICW by 0946. Heard “Stella Maris” calling a bridge and found…
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Cape Canaveral
Port Canaveral was an easy place to check-in with customs and immigration, but Port Cove marina was a little on the expensive side at $80 per night. We were on a floating dock that was exposed to the waves coming through the inlet driven by 25 knot winds. Spray was coming over the bow of…
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Crossing to Florida
Intuition Log – 21 May Great Sale, Bahamas to Cape Canaveral, Florida The morning weather forecast called for unsettled weather for the next 1-3 weeks. After carefully considering the weather options, we decided that it was time to give up on a window for getting all the way to North Carolina in one hop. That…
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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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