Sailing Ohana

Our friends from Colorado, the Vasel family, came to stay on the boat for a few days, then at a little resort on Stocking Island (Georgetown) near Chat n’ Chill. They brought all kinds of goodies from home with them, as well as things we needed and couldn’t get here. We were so thrilled to…

We decided to get a slip at the Emerald Bay Marina so that we could provison, clean and prepare for our friends’ visit. Our generator broke and our friends would be bringing us a new pump to fix it, but in the meantime we wanted to be someplace convenient with electricity. Initially they did not…

I mostly added this so that I can include the drone footage Jackson and Spencer took while we spent the night on our way up to Emerald Bay (I’ll upload asap when I have a chance). We had a lovely sail up and caught two huge jacks which we had for dinner at Water Cay.…

Now we know why the cruisers who make the trek down here are SO in love with these islands. They are uninhabited except for about 60 people who live in Duncantown and the five boats in our flotilla make up about half the boats in the anchorage. The “Hog Cay Yacht Club” is a well-built…

A handful of the kid boats (including us) left Long Island to go to Flamingo Cay in the Jumentos, and then further south to the Raggeds. As always, we wanted to sail on the outside so that we could fish. We had a pretty decent day considering it was a little bumpy, but the sailing…

We had great sail to Long Island for a too-short stop here. We caught two barracudas on the way, which was a bummer because it’s been a long time since we fished a lot, and since we caught anything worth eating. Those barracuda teeth are amazing… I wish I had gotten better photos. The boys…

I was so happy to drop anchor in a protected, quiet cove in Crab Cay (just moments from Georgetown) where the boys jumped off the boat, went spearfishing with Tommy and Susie, and we had a delicious dinner on our boat with our SV Grace friends. It felt almost decadent to have fresh vegetables on…

I will look back on our last few days in Georgetown as a challenging and pivotal time. There were several pretty heated conversations within our family about how the trip is going — not only practically, but emotionally. On one day we argued about every. Single. Thing. All. Day. That was the same day that…

Georgetown is a very popular place for cruisers to use as a home base. The cruising community here often consists of over 300 boats on anchors or moorings, and many of those are kid boats. When we arrived late in the afternoon we hustled to the grocery store and stocked up on food. It has…

Tommy and I meticulously planned the very shallow route down to Lee Stocking Island. We looked at the depths for the entire course and found that there was only one section on the charts that was questionable with our 4 ft 6 in draft, but the sands in the area are always shifting. We knew…