Florida to St John

Vessel Name: Keel-N-Time (ne Ki'ilani)
Vessel Make/Model: Formosa 41 center cockpit
Crew: Skip and Cynthia
02 February 2019 | South end of Cat Island, near BTC tower
28 January 2019 | 24.8248 N'N:76.182 W'E, Rock Sound Harbor/Rock Creek, south end of Eluthera Island, Bahamas
27 January 2019 | 24.8248 N'N:76.182 W'E, Rock Sound Harbor/Rock Creek, south end of Eluthera Island, Bahamas
27 January 2019 | 24.8248 'N:76.182 'W, Rock Sound Harbor/Rock Creek, south end of Eluthera Island, Bahamas
26 January 2019 | 25 21.83'N:76 14.855'W, Just east of Eluthera Island, Bahamas
26 January 2019 | 25 21.83'N:76 14.855'W, Just east of Eluthera Island, Bahamas
25 January 2019 | 26 36.173'N:76 56.501'W, NE corner of Great Abaco Island, Bahamas
24 January 2019 | 22.548 'N:77.06 'W, Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco Island, Bahamas
18 January 2019 | 26.769 N'N:-79.693 E'E, 18.5NM east of West Palm Beach
18 January 2019 | 26.787 N'N:-79.93 E'E, 26.786, -79.93
18 January 2019 | 26.947 'N:-80.00 'E, 26.9474N, -80.00E
17 January 2019 | 27.512 'N:80.2 'W, 27.512, -80.2
13 January 2019 | 27 29.642'N:80 22.277'W, Vero Beach City Marina
13 January 2019 | still at mooring
Recent Blog Posts
02 February 2019 | South end of Cat Island, near BTC tower

Post to my other blog about Bahamas trip so far. Now at Cat Island.

At Cat Island where Cynthia has killed three lionfish and we enjoyed eating the largest. The main halyard continues to chafe, so we need to solve that before heading out across the open to St John: too many lines are knotted together and rather ratty: should I get entirely new running rigging before [...]

28 January 2019 | 24.8248 N'N:76.182 W'E, Rock Sound Harbor/Rock Creek, south end of Eluthera Island, Bahamas

Sunday Jan 28, 9:30am

Wind is blowing like stink, tide is going out (we should have a foot of wagter under our keel at low water), clouds moving in along with some forecast rain. We have two anchors holding us, so far less chance of dragging anchor in this wind. What will today bring? I HOPE that all works as planned, but [...]

27 January 2019 | 24.8248 N'N:76.182 W'E, Rock Sound Harbor/Rock Creek, south end of Eluthera Island, Bahamas

Saturday Jan 26, 2:45 pm

Yesterday several dolphins visited us as we sailed. At first they lept out of wave fronts and showed off, then two began leaping together, side-by-side, then one even did a backflip! Do they visit to get an audience or are they take this opportinuty to play with something new rather than endless water? Getting [...]

Friday 3:15pm: heading to Bahamas!

18 January 2019 | 26.769 N'N:-79.693 E'E, 18.5NM east of West Palm Beach
Hydrophilia
Had a beautiful sunset and ate Graeter's ice cream with some sadness: tomorrow the dry ice will be gone and we will have no more..

Contacted a friend about the excessive wear on the alternator belts and he gave some good advice that the wheels may be pitted or we may be drawing too much power and overheating the alternator. I'll check these possibilities.

Sailboat steers itself beautifully without needing the autohelm, if one is thoughtful.

Wind is light, but will change and increase until Sunday night which will probably suck. We shall see.

If I get this posted tonight, it will be the first time I've used my satellite phone as part of a wifi hotspot. Crossing fingers...

1/18/2019 8pm EST
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