by Dana | Sep 15, 2019 | anchoring, cruiser humor, cruising British Columbia
Crab, stuck in our anchor chain, Port Browning, North Pender Island, Canada.Wide-eyed, Wayne rushed inside as he was still pulling up our anchor in Port Browning. I was puzzled. Normally, Wayne directs me from the bow, usually with hand signals, to move the boat left,... by GWTAdmin | Sep 3, 2015 | anchoring, boat maintenance and repair, sailing mishaps, sharks, suwarrow cook islands
“Bommies” — aka submerged coral heads make for nervous sailorsin shallow waters, especially when it comes to anchoring.These were all over Suwarrow’s anchorage, as seen off the bow ofour Pearson 365 sailboat.Winds were 20+ knots in our face as... by GWTAdmin | Jun 27, 2014 | anchoring, Bahamas wildlife, compass cay exuma bahama, cruiser destinations, cruising life, hiking
Notice that faint beige-y stripe? It’s a sandbar we were forced to hit.After a couple idyllic days crashing Carnival’s cruise ship island of Little San Salvador (click here for to read about that), we found ourselves jockeying for safe anchorage storm cover... by GWTAdmin | Apr 7, 2014 | anchoring, black point exumas bahamas, cruiser destinations, cruising life, secluded beaches
Jacobs Bay Cove, Great Guana, Exumas, Bahamas. We had the beach and the whole cove all to ourselves.Low tides are great fun for exploring tidal flats, by foot. They are not so great for you’re anchoring your boat someplace shallow, like we were in this... by GWTAdmin | Mar 21, 2014 | anchoring, cruising activities, cruising destinations, cruising life, docking, exuma yacht club, georgetown bahamas
Our boat’s only 36 feet, but the dock finger’s still wellshort of where we’d normally step onto a dock.Okay, I admit my sailing skills are less than stellar, despite my time aboard. I’m far more comfortable “on the hook.” Grabbing a bobbing piece of line on the... by GWTAdmin | Feb 20, 2014 | anchoring, bahamas, coral, cruising destinations, cruising life, curly tailed lizard, eagle ray, exumas, sand dollar, starfish, warderick wells
Warderick Wells mooring channel; a tight fit! Only the teal section(not sand or turquoise) is deep enough.Once your pulse returns to normal after squeezing through the narrow arc of a channel, as shallow as 7 feet deep (and it feet like not much wider), you...