s/v Trouble – Destination Unkown
Ft Lauderdale, FL — 11•27•22 This will be season 3 for me going over to the Bahamas. The nerves and worries of the unknown I had the first year were mostly gone. We had a good weather window and so off we went. My brother joined me for this quick overnight trip. The Gulfstream can …
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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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 …