Berry Islands and Nassau

In Bahamas by Daniel4 Comments

We woke up the morning after Christmas after a peaceful night at the Slaughter Harbor anchorage.  After a little bit of breakfast and some coffee I started to gather my things for a swim to the beach.  On Mark’s suggestion, I decided to take one of the large fenders with me in case I got tired on the way.  I …

In the Bahamas!

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Jimmy, Mike, Dad and I left from Morehead City on Dec. 1 and made it down to Ft. Lauderdale by Dec. 11.  I plan on writing quite a bit about that adventure later on but I figured I better start with just a few days ago and work my way back as I can. Mark drove down from Panama City …

Keys and Back Slideshow

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Here is the link for the Keys and Back Slideshow: www.sailawaywebdesign.com/keysandback.html. Sorry it has taken so long to post! I promise to post the wrap up of our adventure this next week. I am currently in Ocracoke and meeting lots of really great people. First week of officially living aboard! More to come soon!

We’re here with a new plan! (super long catchup post…)

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We finally made it out of Brunswick and headed down the ICW.  We had to leave a little bit later than we liked so that we would hit Jekyll Creek around high tide.  The conditions were much better than the day before and we made fairly decent time.  Jekyll Creek did prove to be a little challenging.  We had only …

Movies!

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Here is a link to our movie page for our videos of the trip so far: http://www.youtube.com/user/dansockwell.  We will keep uploading files here but I will make sure to create a new post to let you know when they are uploaded.  We have quite a few but I only posted a few to start with.  We are a little distracted …

Brunswick, Brunswick and more Brunswick…

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The passage out of Charleston Harbor was pretty choppy.  There was a fairly steady wind and we had a bit of a time getting the main sail up.  Things settled down a bit after we left the channel.  First order of business was to decide our watch schedule.  We have used a variety of random decision helpers throughout the trip …