When we cruised the Jumento islands in 2021, we missed Maxine’s famous Valentine’s Day party by just a few days. This year, we spent much more time in the Jumentos and were able to attend. The event is held at the Hog Cay Yacht Club, which is a small shack in the most popular anchorage…
What Qualifies as a Modern Sailing & Cruising Memoir? Here’s how I am defining modern cruising memoirs for the purpose of this blog post: View my suggestions on Amazon. Orca Who: John Pennington and his now-wife, Kara PotterThe boat: Cape Dory 30Where: Sailing around the world, starting from coastal California, down to Mexico, across the…
The biggest project on our 2022 refit was an electrical reimagining that was centered around our new solar panels. We had several goals we wanted to accomplish to set us up to cruise the next five years. What We Had in December 2021 Since 2014, Starry Horizons had 1060 watts of semi-flexible solar panels spread…
I’ve always been a big reader, but since moving onboard the boat, the number of books I consume every year is truly terrifying. Thankfully, I have figured out how to read many books for free (legally, of course!) As sailors, it’s nice to read about adventures similar to our own, though usually there’s more drama…
After exploring the Northern Exumas on our sailboat, we sailed up to the very north end of Eleuthera to a small island called Spanish Wells. My parents flew in to North Eleuthera airport for a visit. Current Cut Coming from the south, it was most convenient to pass through Current Cut, a very narrow area…
While Georgetown gets busy, with 400 cruising boats at a time in the peak months (Feb-April), it’s a different kind of busy from the northern Exumas, especially Georgetown. After hearing so much about it, we were excited to make our way north and check out the rest of the island chain. Many of our friends…
With our friends Sara and Todd on board, we departed the Georgetown area for Lee Stocking, after the big island just to the north of Great Exuma, and some nearby islands. Sara was feeling a little poorly (could have been the margaritas at Chat N Chill the night before) so we opted to duck into…
When we planned on coming to the Bahamas this season, we know that the Jumento Cays would be our favorite. The Bahamas, especially Georgetown is busy and crowded with cruisers, but the Jumentos are off the beaten path, more untouched and remote than possibly anywhere else in the Bahamas. But, fate being what it is,…