01/06 s/v Trouble Update: It is a new year! Ava and I had a quiet Christmas and New Year. We had hoped to go to Chubb Cay for New Years (High-end Marina south end of Great Harbour Cay) But they were very unresponsive in answering the phone or returning our calls. So they were either …
Hoffman Cay Blue Hole
12/24 s/v Trouble Update: Ava (Daughter) flew in Monday(12/21) for the holidays. We left the marina the next day for Hoffman Cay as we had a small weather window to do this trip. It was a brisk sail mostly downwind. I wanted to time our arrival at Hoffman Cay to be at high tide. This …
The Bridget Bardot Beach
12/16 s/v Trouble Update: It’s been almost a week since I left Florida. This island is very quiet and not much is happening. I biked around the island a bit one day and have been taking the dinghy out in excursions near the harbor. There is a sunken DC3 that was loaded with marijuana in …
Arrived in Great Harbour Cay
12/11 s/v Trouble Update: I Arrived in Great Harbour Cay (pronounced “Key”) at about 10:30 am. The morning was beautiful with the wind on the nose and building to about 20knots. I had positioned the boat that night so I would have a good sail straight to Great Harbour Cay. After coffee and clearing the …
Crossing The Gulf Stream
12/10 s/v Trouble Update: I left Ft Lauderdale uneventfully. Well almost. As I was waiting for the bridge to open I was trying to keep the boat in the middle of the channel and stow all the fenders and clean up the deck. There was a current so I’d periodically go back to the helm …
