Whether aiming for the Virgin Islands or all the way to Grenada, getting to the Eastern Caribbean is well-known to be challenging because it requires going 1,400 miles east against the strong easterly trade winds (i.e., directly into it). In our case, it nearly ended our cruising life, with plenty […]
Brian
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We arrived at sunrise. After endless small islands rising 100 feet at best, this was a sight to behold. It’s massive. Massively tall. Massively wide. Wow. Our approach was pitch black, with a first-quarter moon that had set hours before. After sailing 60 nautical miles south from Turks and Caicos, […]
Lazy jacks are a system of lines on each side of the boom that are rigged to a point high on the mast and down through a series of points until attached along the length of the boom. Their primary purpose is to contain and guide the main sail, particularly […]
May was approaching and we needed to head back to start our trip north up the U.S. east coast. I was excited to spend the summer exploring the Chesapeake and sailing into New York harbor. Sprinting Home Down at the southern end of the Ragged Islands in the Bahamas, we […]
Into the wilderness. This is the outback. The wild west. No one is coming to help. In fact, for much our time here, there was no one, period. The Ragged Islands are the southern half of a long chain of small islands extending south from Georgetown and Great Exuma, ultimately […]