Thompson Bay, Long Island, BS — 01•24•23 After provisioning at Salt Pond Long Island, I was back off to the Raggeds. It was a calm morning pulling up the anchor in Thomson Bay and I’d be motoring in glass calm seas for the first few hours. Later in the day the wind picked up and …
First Time Adventures With Spinnaker and Lively Upwind Beating
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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More Trouble In The Raggeds
Georgetown, Great Exuma Island — 03•19•22 After provisioning and jugging fuel to Trouble I was ready to get out of town and head back to the Raggeds. I wanted to try the backway through Pudding Cut. To do that I needed to stop at Williams Bay, Lee Stocking Island. Last season I stopped here quick …
Skirting The Danger Zone
Hog Cay, Ragged Islands — 02•18•22 Running out of food and dinghy gas I had to start thinking about working my way out of the Raggeds and getting to “civilization”. But, first I had to do the inaugural Valentine’s Day Party that Maxine from Ragged Island puts on every year for the cruisers at the …
The Raggeds
03/28 Looking for s/v Trouble Update: Back to George Town which is cruiser central down here. I did some provisioning, jugging diesel to the boat, and just hanging out for a few days. It looked like there was a good weather window to sail down to “The Raggeds”. They are very remote islands, about as …