s/v Trouble – Destination Unkown
Grand Cay, Abacos, Bahamas — 05•14•22 0800 hours, anchor up and underway. Today we are leaving the Bahamas crossing the Gulf Stream to St. Augustine Florida. The original plan was to follow the Barracouta Bank (Yes it’s spelled that way) to the Gulf Stream. I was following a couple of other sailboats that went north …
Sand Dollar Beach, Georgetown, Bahamas — 05•01•22 Anchor up at 0700 (7 am) and heading out Conch Cut to Cat Island. It’s time to work my way out of the Bahamas and get back to the USA. Hurricane season starts on June one, and I need to be in the Chesapeake by then. Trouble is …
Calabash, Long Island — 04•20•22 Today we are headed to Georgetown. The E-Sea Ryder flotilla consisting of E-Sea Ryder, Mangata, Racheline, and Trouble, headed off at dawn. All four boats were single handling. It would be an easy downwind sail into Georgetown, approximately 26 nautical miles. I left last, as Trouble would scoot along in …
Double Breasted Cay, Raggeds — 04•05•22 0830 hours, engines on, anchor coming up. I’ve got to get to George Town to submit my taxes. I was not getting text messages for the two-factor authentication log-on, for my brokerage accounts. Water Cay was my destination for the night, but I bailed out at Flamingo Cay as …
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Double Breasted Cay, Raggeds — 03•23•22 It has been over a year since I’ve anchored at Double Breasted. Last season this was as far as I made it, into the Raggeds. I got off the boat to a walk on the far side of Double Breasted. This side of the island, like all of them …