Cruising with Osprey: SailBlogs

No Name Harbor

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:39:06 -0500

The seas are calm. The wind is soft. We are anchored outside of No Name Harbor off Key Biscayne. Bimini is 48 miles away. We are poised........ (View Post...)

Pottering about

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:11:51 -0500

We are enjoying some wonderful weather here in the Grove. It is warm and sunny but cooler at night which makes for good sleeping. We have found everything we need right here and because the Marina runs a launch service we havn't even had to relaunch the dinghy - which was stowed on the coach roof for the crossing that never happened. The days are passing very quickly and we are watching the weather closely, even getting up at 6.30am each morning to listen to the Carribean Weather forecast on the SSB. (Continued...)

Back-ups and more back-ups

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:23:09 -0600

The new GPS units arrived as arranged on Friday. By noon time we had the new Chartplotter installed and up and running at the Nav. station. The new handheld was tested and found to be fully operational. The original chartplotter is also working so we certainly have enough GPS options at this point. So, once again, we are ready to go. But, of course we now have to wait for weather. We had hoped that we could go on Monday but right now that does not look good. At this point we are not sure when we can head over. We are fairly happy here at DKMF - although we would prefer to be in the Bahamas! Certainly it is cheap enough so that is good. The only problem is that the Fresh Market is too close and we can never get out of there spending less than $50!!! The days pass by very quickly - there always seems to be something to do. (View Post...)