The trip to the Bahamas was amazing. Beautiful beaches, incredible people, tons of places to explore both inhabited and uninhabited, great new drinks to experiment. You know, typical vacation, right? Mostly. Enter the Boat Factor. Like most of "us", traveling to and from our vacation spots includes [...]

I put up a post on the SSCA discussion board offering deep draft Abacos information if anyone was interested. Got a few bites and here is what I posted.

So the trip was fantastic. We carved out a beautiful deep draft route through the Abacos and never kissed bottom even once. Made it all the way to Hope Town. However, in our quest to be conservative knowing how the weather can be this time of year, we started our voyage west a bit early... Maybe too early. We are in West End and have been since... ummm.. when did we get here...? Last Thursday I think. Maybe Wednesday... Anyway, today is Sunday and we are hoping to depart tomorrow; it looks like a tiny weather window will open up for a very short time tonight and tomorrow through Tuesday. But none of the forecasts have been very accurate as there has been a front toying with us; becoming stationary then moving on, stationary then moving BACKWARDS!!! It seemed like it moved on yesterday when the winds went from 23+ out of the south to 28+ out of the north - instantly! But its still blowing a lot out of the north and east this morning. Guess there are worse places to be stuck, right? Good thing we like Conch. Conch salad, conch fritters, cracked conch, conch scorch... starting to feel like Forrest...

Can't believe we are finally here! We have been trying to make this trip during November for three years now and have been shut down each time by wind. Not this time, the weather couldn't have been much more perfect, by any means. The Gulf Stream crossing was a little spunky about a third of the way [...]

Finally... The Doors are done. One big, gnawing project off the list. YES! What doors? Glad you asked. We are speaking of the doors in our pilot house that cover the engine room. They have finally been replaced with new ones. The old doors were finished with beautiful small circular tiles that matched [...]

Here's another assignment about Tack Tick Wireless instrumentation that I turned into my class...