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Blue Pearl, Renewed for Season 2
Hi Friends & Fam! It’s been a minute hasn’t it? Truth be told, I didn’t expect to be sitting aboard Blue Pearl writing this post from a slip in St. Augustine. When we got back from the Bahamas in May we started a house hunt. Staying optimistic that if we found the right place, we…
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A Grand Finale
Our final days in the Abacos were the total opposite of how our initial days began. The weather was absolutely perfect. When our group parted ways at Cooper’s Town, the wind still wasn’t quite right for us to cruise the barrier islands in the North Abacos so we decided to sail back down to Green…
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Northern Abacos – Racing, Reunions & a Toothy Visitor
April 25th was a calm weather day with a perfect SE wind for going through Whale Cay Cut. Like all cuts in The Bahamas there’s a lot of build up & hype around navigating this one. As long as you time it right according to wind direction, wind speed & tides it’s easy breezy. Our…
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Save the best for last?
Engine update…. we ordered our new fresh water pump on a Tuesday to Ft. Lauderdale. Even with horrific storms and flooding in Florida, our part somehow made it to Spanish Wells 4 days later! So Saturday night Rocky spent 5 hours installing it and fine tuning things and Sunday morning we were off to the…
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Eleuthera, 9 Years Later
February 2014 was our first vacation together. We rented a house in Rainbow Bay on the island of Eleuthera. We always knew we wanted to come back. Little did we know that we’d be coming back as liveaboards on our own sailboat, seeing as neither of us knew how to sail at the time. After…
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A Quick Visit to Cat
About a year into planning this trip, I’d read Julie Bradley’s Escape from the Ordinary. A super fun non-fiction read and a nice reminder that we were making the right decision to hit pause on our land life and go for it. It stuck with me how much they loved Cat Island so I knew…
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The Bluest Blues
We often end up in a new anchorage and think, THIS must be the most amazing spot we’ve been so far. Well Conception Island was one of those anchorages. It’s a national park which means it’s a no-take zone in terms of fishing (and even shelling) and is the location of tropical nesting birds and…
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Life in Georgetown
We’ve been in Georgetown for 9 nights. Life is different here compared to where we’ve been up to now. We’ve treated ourselves to multiple meals ashore. All very tasty! Provisioning here feels luxurious. You can get most things (for example, I snagged fresh cilantro, chives & jalapeƱos all for a specific recipe). The night sky…
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More of the Exumas!
We can see why people say the Exumas has some of the best cruising grounds in all The Bahamas. We’ll have to report back once we see more but for now, we’re believers. After leaving our anchorage in Sampson Cay, we had our eyes set on finding a spot to tuck in for an upcoming…