We ( my brother Ron and I ) pulled away from the dock in Marathon on Feb 21st and headed to Rodriguez Key to overnight before crossing to Bimini in the Bahamas. The weather forecast was perfect so after a short night sleep we were off at 3:30 am... the gulf stream was generally flat with good 10 to 15 knots of wind which made for a great sail... we caught 1 Bonita tuna on the way but sent him back to grow bigger. at 2:00 in the afternoon we spotted land! at 3:30 we were tying up at the Big Game Club in Bimini to clear in to the Bahamas...

after spending the night in Bimini we sailed around looking for fish most of the day and then anchored at Gun Cay for lunch and a quick snorkel. we headed off for Cat Cay and then across the Bahama banks where we would spend the next 70 miles in water that was crystal clear and between 10 to 15 feet deep... all 70ish miles..... we dropped the hook at 10 pm in flat calm water
35 miles from land in 10 feet of water and had a good nights sleep...


The following day at 6 am we were sailing again. We arrived at Chub Cay about 2 o'clock and were on a mooring at Fraizers Hog Cay by sunset. We dingy'd in to the Berry Island club only to discover it was a 1 man operation with Howard being the cook, bartender, and every thing else. We ordered dinner that took about 3 hrs for him to make for the 4 of us with myself having just a BLT!