Bahamas bound

Christmas and New Years is already over since a few weeks. It was a quiet holiday for us at the marina as most  people were away. We did have our friend John from Kitchener visit us for a week which was nice for us and a little chilly for him, the weather wasn’t great..

Many jobs, repairs and cosmetic work to the boat were done  during our time here. This has been a wonderful spot to refresh the boat and recharge for the Caribbean.

 The fridge died just before Christmas so we had to get ice at the marina every day to fill it so we wouldn’t lose our food and keep the beer cold, lol until the new one arrived. Luckily Mike was able to install it so it did cut down on our costs .
I was busy with varnishing and painting jobs.

Now we’re itching to leave for the Bahamas. We’ve provisioned heavily ie beer and wine since everything in the Bahamas is 3 times the price of Florida. A case of beer is 50.00$ to 60.00$ US and as you’ll see in the photos, many cases of beer and wine is on board. And yes we did buy food as well. Luckily our boat is a Corbin so  tons of storage space. Still have more room for more lol. Thinking of maybe doing a little bootlegging on the side 😜 or  heading for Betty Ford Center 😂

So now we are waiting for a perfect weather window to cross the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas. We can only cross with a southern wind with less wind than  15 knots as winds from the north will create  large waves and it could make it a very unpleasant 10 hour crossing.
We have friends that tried to cross and had to turn back after 2 hours so we’re hoping to avoid this situation.

Hopefully Sunday, we start heading out to West Palm Beach to wait for that perfect weather window.
Stay tuned.....
Mike and Pierrette








Comments

  1. MarieJanuary 21, 2020 at 4:52 PM

    Nice to know you'll not run short of beer or wine on your trip lol.
    Love the pics of sunny Florida I'm sure you're not missing our Canadian winter.
    I hope the weather is good on Sunday so you can start the next leg of your trip .

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