It was a good night on the mooring ball at Lee Stocking until about 0500 when the wind and current combined to drag the mooring pendant under the boat and the mooring ball started knocking on the hull. Doug, a relative of Rob on Milano Myst was visiting from Vancouver Island, Canada. His wife sent…

Today looked like a good opportunity to head south and we would have company in the crew of “Milano Myst”. As much as we really liked Black Point, the weather is going to sour later in the week and we want to be someplace more protected.  Pulled the hook at 0712 and headed south on…

Black Point Town Dock Yesterday we worked on the windlass wiring. It had been wired “downstream” of the house battery bank 60 amp fuse, so if any serious load was applied the house bank fuse blew. We’ve blown three fuses in the six months we’ve been cruising, with the most recent being yesterday morning. Rewired…

Surprise, surprise, a log from Beth! It was an almost still night, with very light winds from the East, which barely moved us in our nice protected bay just South of Black Point. After gathering all the dirty clothes I could find, including the sheets off the beds, I left the boat about 7:45 to…

Greetings from Black Point, Great Guana Cay, Exumas Yesterday, we pulled the hook and motored around the south side of the island rather than going through the tiny Fowl Cay cut. The current was running in from Exuma Sound at 2+ knots so we didn’t stop at Staniel Cay Yacht Club on the way by.…

The cold front arrived and temps dropped to 69 this morning with 17 kt winds, bringing the wind chill down enough that we had to put on sweatshirts this morning! Winds were less than predicted and we didn’t see anything over 23 kts. The last two nights were rather restless as we were up and…