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 [...]

Thursday Jan 24: anchored in Marsh Harbor

24 January 2019 | 22.548 'N:77.06 'W, Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco Island, Bahamas
Hydrophilia
This trip has either been too much wind or too little. Currently enough wind that we simply have been sitting aboard, on anchor, unable to even snorkel as the sediment in the water gets stirred by these winds. Perhaps today we will depart and head over to Fish Cays to see what we can find there.

Our main halyard chafed through a few days ago, but we still could sail with mizzen and jib. The real pain came from the boken line tangling in the propeller.... we ended up heaving-too and I dove and cleared it while Cynthia acted as safety officer and general assistant. It was my first time swimming in tropical water in over a year! I enjoyed it despite getting hit on the head a few times by the boat (we were in 6' waves) and getting a few cuts from barnacles .

Still unable to download weather data, but might manage in the next hour or so....or may need to go ashore somewhere. Cafe here?

Well, that's all for now.
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