Polite Compromise
| Vessel Name: | Compromise |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Beneteau/Oceanis 41 |
| Hailing Port: | Houston Texas |
| Crew: | Karen and Ron Anderson |
| About: | Married for 44 years. Kids grown and gone. Decided we wanted another adventure (like raising kids wasn't enough) and brag about it. The commodore and I are off on another one of our adventures. |
| Extra: | I was once told that the secret to a successful marriage is polite compromise. I'm still not sure what is so polite about it. |
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05 April 2019 | Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
26 January 2019 | Providencia, Colombia
17 October 2018 | Rio Dulce, MAR Marina
29 August 2018 | MAR Marina, Izabel, Guatemala
12 May 2018
22 March 2018 | Boot Key Harbor, Marathon, FL
13 December 2017 | Titusville, FL
28 November 2017 | Anchored just south of Brunswick, GA
08 August 2017 | Portsmouth, VA
19 July 2017 | Oriental, NC
05 May 2017
20 April 2017 | Marathon City Marina - Boot Key Harbor
03 March 2017
09 June 2016 | Galveston, TX
01 June 2016 | Pensacola, FL
23 May 2016 | Moving from Key West to Dry Tortugas
16 May 2016 | Marathon City Marina, Boot Key - Marathon, FL
06 May 2016 | Hope Town Harbour, Elbow Cay, Bahamas
16 April 2016 | Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abacos, Bahamas
09 April 2016 | Cherokee Point, Abacos, Bahamas
Recent Blog Posts
26 January 2019 | Providencia, Colombia
Another new stamp in my passport
It's time to move!! We left the Rio in late October, traveling for a while with Kemah friends, Tracie and Steve on "Saga Sea". Once we reached open water, they turned north to Belize and we went south to Honduras. The main areas of the Bay Islands of Honduras are Utilla, Roatan, Guanaja, and Cayos [...]
17 October 2018 | Rio Dulce, MAR Marina
Stuff Happens
There is really only one word to describe the Rio Dulce in August/September… HOT! It is the rainy season so you get wet at least once a day, but overall it is just miserably hot! No breeze to cool off with but you open the hatches anyway. Bugs are out and mosquitos are everywhere.
29 August 2018 | MAR Marina, Izabel, Guatemala
View from the Bow
Summer is racing past! It’s the end of August already and we are starting to make tentative plans for whatever comes next.
12 May 2018
Bienvenido a Rio Dulce Guatemala
We left Key West and motor sailed for three days, arriving in Isla Mujeres Mexico on April 14th. Trying to stay out of the Gulf Stream, we went south to get close to Cuba (about 10-20 miles offshore) and take advantage of a small counter-current. Once we passed Cuba and entered the Yucatan Straits, [...]
22 March 2018 | Boot Key Harbor, Marathon, FL
Good bye Bahamas
It has been a busy past few months! We left Titusville in early January and moved south, arriving in Fort Lauderdale on the 14th. We stayed just long enough to pick up mail, resupply the galley, take Ron to the dentist, and wait for that all important Weather Window. We pared up with another boat, [...]
What day is it?
21 February 2016 | Little Farmers Cay
Karen/Early evening and calm
Amazing. We keep losing track of time and have to ask each other what day of the week it is. Guess that means we’re having a good time!
We stayed in Staniel Cay for five nights - moving to a couple of different anchorages in order to stay away from the rough winds. We had to wait until the mail arrived before we could leave and then time it with a good weather opportunity. So while we waited, we were able to do more sight seeing. Motored over to Big Major and check out the wild pig population there. The pigs are not shy and will actually swim out and try to get you to feed them. But their teeth and hooves are sharp so we were warned not to let them near the dingy to keep them from punching holes in it. Next we dinked over to the Thunderball Grotto to go snorkeling. You can only access the grotto at low tide so we took advantage of the calm day and went in. Beautiful! The fish weren’t shy and we had the place pretty much to ourselves.
Mail finally came on the 16th so we moved to Black Point on Great Guana Cay. It is a settlement and doesn’t have any amenities for boaters. But we found several little grocery stores, a couple of restaurants, laundry mat, and a post office.
Rockside Laundry has it’s own dingy dock. The lady who runs it seems to have many businesses: taxi driver, golf cart rentals, runs a small convenience store, bakes cakes, and is also a barber! So Ron got a quick trim while I loaded the laundry machines. Two doors down is Lorraine’s Cafe (with internet!) and behind her restaurant is her mother’s house, Peermon Rolle, who is the local baker. Ron bought me a fresh loaf of coconut bread. I think I am addicted to the stuff!
We walked to the south end of the cay so that we could see the “Garden of Eden”. The sign by the road said to ask for Willie. So that’s what we did. The garden is actually a driftwood sculpture garden set in a rough rocky plot of land. Willie walked us by each piece of driftwood and told us what each one was supposed to look like: shark, crab, flamingo, ballerina, indian, whale, etc. He had stories for them all. And he posed for photos with Ron. The best part for me was the tropical fruit trees. Tamarind, almond, guava, sapodilla, cocoplum. Willie was a charmer.
We spent two nights at anchor at Black Point - and were pleased to meet up with couple of the boats we met early in our trip. We all have different sailing plans, but we hope to meet up again in a couple of months when we reach the Abacos (in the northern Bahamas).
We left the 18th on a rising tide to move on to Little Farmers Cay. Only a 10 mile trip, but it was through a shallow channel so we had to watch for sandbars and coral heads. Ron called and made a mooring ball reservation at Farmers Cay Yacht Club. There are only two balls, and we are the only ones here. But we are expecting another hard wind tonight (20 to 25 kts, with gusts up to 30kts) and we wanted to be someplace a little more protected.
What a nice place! Ron hauled our little bicycles off of the boat and took them over to the dock. We have been riding them all over the island. Not a big claim since the island is barely a mile long and only half a mile wide. But the roads are paved and everyone is friendly. Today we biked to the farthest point of the cay and took more photos. For lunch we went to the Ocean Cabin Restaurant. The owner is Terry Bain (another charmer) who made us feel right at home. Had a great time, enjoyed a few beers and had a fabulous lunch. Lobster with cole slaw, rice & beans. Doesn’t get much better… Ron bought a Farmers Cay Flag for the boat and signed their guest book. After two beers and a lobster - the bike ride was pretty slow getting back to the boat…
We plan to leave on Monday to begin the trip to Georgetown. The wind and waves will be too high to go outside in the Exuma Sound, so we’ll navigate our way through the Galliot Bank south to Square Rock Cay. On Wednesday, the waves/wind are expected to be low so we’ll go into the sound for the rest of the trip to Georgetown.
More later…
Love, Karen.
p.s. I'll add some photos to Facebook.
We stayed in Staniel Cay for five nights - moving to a couple of different anchorages in order to stay away from the rough winds. We had to wait until the mail arrived before we could leave and then time it with a good weather opportunity. So while we waited, we were able to do more sight seeing. Motored over to Big Major and check out the wild pig population there. The pigs are not shy and will actually swim out and try to get you to feed them. But their teeth and hooves are sharp so we were warned not to let them near the dingy to keep them from punching holes in it. Next we dinked over to the Thunderball Grotto to go snorkeling. You can only access the grotto at low tide so we took advantage of the calm day and went in. Beautiful! The fish weren’t shy and we had the place pretty much to ourselves.
Mail finally came on the 16th so we moved to Black Point on Great Guana Cay. It is a settlement and doesn’t have any amenities for boaters. But we found several little grocery stores, a couple of restaurants, laundry mat, and a post office.
Rockside Laundry has it’s own dingy dock. The lady who runs it seems to have many businesses: taxi driver, golf cart rentals, runs a small convenience store, bakes cakes, and is also a barber! So Ron got a quick trim while I loaded the laundry machines. Two doors down is Lorraine’s Cafe (with internet!) and behind her restaurant is her mother’s house, Peermon Rolle, who is the local baker. Ron bought me a fresh loaf of coconut bread. I think I am addicted to the stuff!
We walked to the south end of the cay so that we could see the “Garden of Eden”. The sign by the road said to ask for Willie. So that’s what we did. The garden is actually a driftwood sculpture garden set in a rough rocky plot of land. Willie walked us by each piece of driftwood and told us what each one was supposed to look like: shark, crab, flamingo, ballerina, indian, whale, etc. He had stories for them all. And he posed for photos with Ron. The best part for me was the tropical fruit trees. Tamarind, almond, guava, sapodilla, cocoplum. Willie was a charmer.
We spent two nights at anchor at Black Point - and were pleased to meet up with couple of the boats we met early in our trip. We all have different sailing plans, but we hope to meet up again in a couple of months when we reach the Abacos (in the northern Bahamas).
We left the 18th on a rising tide to move on to Little Farmers Cay. Only a 10 mile trip, but it was through a shallow channel so we had to watch for sandbars and coral heads. Ron called and made a mooring ball reservation at Farmers Cay Yacht Club. There are only two balls, and we are the only ones here. But we are expecting another hard wind tonight (20 to 25 kts, with gusts up to 30kts) and we wanted to be someplace a little more protected.
What a nice place! Ron hauled our little bicycles off of the boat and took them over to the dock. We have been riding them all over the island. Not a big claim since the island is barely a mile long and only half a mile wide. But the roads are paved and everyone is friendly. Today we biked to the farthest point of the cay and took more photos. For lunch we went to the Ocean Cabin Restaurant. The owner is Terry Bain (another charmer) who made us feel right at home. Had a great time, enjoyed a few beers and had a fabulous lunch. Lobster with cole slaw, rice & beans. Doesn’t get much better… Ron bought a Farmers Cay Flag for the boat and signed their guest book. After two beers and a lobster - the bike ride was pretty slow getting back to the boat…
We plan to leave on Monday to begin the trip to Georgetown. The wind and waves will be too high to go outside in the Exuma Sound, so we’ll navigate our way through the Galliot Bank south to Square Rock Cay. On Wednesday, the waves/wind are expected to be low so we’ll go into the sound for the rest of the trip to Georgetown.
More later…
Love, Karen.
p.s. I'll add some photos to Facebook.
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Compromise's Photos - Main
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Deadline run from Sanibel to Marathon via the Florida Bay. Crab pots and all.
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Created 21 December 2015
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some pic of offshore sunsets and sunrises.
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Created 3 December 2015
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Sights as we travel along the ditch (GIWW)
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Created 17 November 2015
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Pictures of sailing in and around the Texas Coast and ICW. Just havin' fun.
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Created 6 October 2015
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