Voyages

Position Report – Chubb Cay, Berry Islands – The Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/02/01 22:00 LATITUDE: 25-24.55N LONGITUDE: 077-54.57W COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Chubb Cay, Berry Islands – The Bahamas We had a lovely get together last evening aboard Beach House with new friends Anneke and Tom (from Holland) aboard s/v \”Elisa\” They left very early this morning for The Abacos […]

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Position Report – St. Georges Cay, Eleuthra – The Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/29 22:30 LATITUDE: 25-32.45N LONGITUDE: 076-45.36W COMMENT: Beach House -DOCKED-St. Georges Cay, Eleuthra – The Bahamas We left on the falling tide from Little Harbour on Great Abaco at 0710 am this morning. The day turned out to be great sailing as we covered the 58 miles. In about 8

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Position Report – Little Harbour, South Tip of Great Abaco Island – The Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/28 18:02 LATITUDE: 26-19.60N LONGITUDE: 076-59.92W COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Little Harbour, Southern Tip of Great Abaco Island Yesterday, we rented bikes and took a tour of Elbow Cay including a nice stop off at Sea Breeze Marina (lunch) and the pink sands of Tahiti Beach. We\’ve been

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2015 Season Begins!…Ft. Lauderdale to The Abacos – Bahamas

January 25th, 2015  (-5 hrs on UTC) Dear Friends and Family, We had a nice weather window to leave Ft. Lauderdale on with the cold fronts from up north providing a nice WNWesterly to scoot the 71 miles to Old Bahama Bay Marina at the northwest end of Grand Bahama Island. Our plan has been

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Position Report – Hope Town, Elbow Cay – Abaco Group – Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/21 21:55 LATITUDE: 26-32.25N LONGITUDE: 076-57.55W COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Hope Town, Elbow Cay – Abaco Group-Bahamas We\’ve caught up on the position reports as of this notice…. Marsh Harbour is a bit industrial and just a \”marketing stop\”. As such, we moved over late in the day

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Position Report – Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island – Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/21 18:29 LATITUDE: 26-32.85N LONGITUDE: 077-03.38W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: NNW CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1015.5 AIR_TEMP: 27.2C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island – Bahamas With Mike Lonnes\’ help kicking my brain, we found that we had blown a fuse which fed

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Position Report – Black Sound, Green Turtle Cay – Abacos-Bahamas

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/20 21:51 LATITUDE: 26-45.54N LONGITUDE: 077-19.40W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: SE CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 12 BARO: 1015.4 AIR_TEMP: 22.2C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Black Sound, Green Turtle Cay – Abacos – Bahamas A long easy day, quite cool for these parts. Overcast skies. We\’re at the south

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Position Report – Great Sale Cay, Little Bahamas Bank…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/19 21:43 LATITUDE: 26-58.87N LONGITUDE: 078-12.86W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: NNE CLOUDS: 20% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1017 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Great Sale Cay, Little Bahamas Bank Oh what a day!… We\’ve had the following issues: Our \”Navigate Mode\” on our auto pilot stopped working.

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POSITION REPORT – West End Grand Bahama, Old Bahama Bay Marina…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/01/19 01:19 LATITUDE: 26-42.05N LONGITUDE: 078-59.51W COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Old Bahama Bay Marina, West End Grand Bahama It was a long day. 72 miles from Ft. Lauderdale to the West End here at Grand Bahama. We made the 7:30 a.m. bridge opening and passed a record 8

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Beach House getting ready to start the 2015 sailing season…..FINALLY!

January 17th, 2015 (UTC -5) Ahoy Friends and Family, We\’re in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and will head toward The Abacos in the Bahamas, Eleuthra, Andros and then may go exotic!…Stay tuned. We should be in Panama on the East side of the Canal in April with lots of stops in Central America along the way.

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