I’m back in vero beach getting back to some pickleball games and reconnecting with cruisers still here in vero. It’s warmed up since I was here only 6 weeks ago so busy with boat projects, meeting new cruiser friends, and daily walks around town and on the Atlantic. Some biking and swimming at the gym.…

We waited about 8 days to find a suitable weather window where the wind didn’t have a northerly component in it that could easily increase the wave heights to 5-15 feet stacking up with the northerly Gulf Stream currents. To sail back north west to Florida we need winds that are east to south east…

A few more days of hanging at the marina looking for a weather window to cross back to the states. New crew has arrived but weather window to enable a smoother crossing has delayed us for about a week. To keep busy, each day is filled with longer hikes on the island or other adventures…

Biking or hiking around the island will offer one with a view of these ultramarine colored water with blowing palm trees and scattered houses on the shores. Places on the island offer higher rocky cliffs and caves. The interior offers large mangrove forest bays.

This tiny island is filled with amazing warmth, kindness, and community that comes from all of the folks on the island which includes the cruiser, local Bahamians and other vacation home owners and visitors. I can’t walk more than a mile before someone, local Bahamian or vacationers stopped to offer me a ride. I can…

It’s a small, friendly community here on great harbour cay. The cruisers, the local Bahamians and home vacationers from the states. The last few days have been more island exploring, snorkeling, painting and being part of music scene on the Friday night bbq grill event at the marina. Long hikes and bike rides around the…

There are plenty of activities to do here on this small island to keep busy. Most mornings are a longer 6 mile hike to the end of the island to shark creek or a bike ride around the island. Afternoons could be a bike ride and swim at the big beach on the east side…

Due to a boat transmission issue I’m spending more at this Bahamas Berries island than planned. This island has a very friendly and welcoming cruiser and local Bahamian community. Fairly quickly I met some long time island cottage home owners and was invited to their Saint patty’s dinner and other events. The Friday night bbq…

This island is bigger than I originally thought. Today I grabbed one of the free marina bikes and headed to the north end of the island. After about 6 miles the road pavement ended and followed a dirt road for another mile before it simply ended in a forest. Biking back south I stopped at…

We left no name harbour after waiting about 3 days for the wind direction to shift more southerly to enable us to sail there. It never did fully rotate enough but we decided to mostly motor there on Monday. During this 24 hour passage, the motor quit at about 12:30 midnight due to fuel issues…

We did an outside Atlantic passage and entered into Biscayne bay near Miami for waiting for weather window in no name harbor. This anchorage turned out to be a wonderful place to wait with places to hike and walk into town for coffee and free concerts just right next to the anchorage. A very short…

We have sailed another two days down the Florida inter coastal waterway with a night stay in Boca Raton and now in fort Lauderdale. Yesterday was navigating thru 20 draw bridges to get the beneteau 42 58 foot mast thru. Between the bridges we would throttle up to 2500 rpm to barrel thru the waterways…

Today we started to sail south on the icw toward Miami. We left about 9 and sailed about 35 miles in higher 10-20 knot winds in the narrow icw waterway. We are staying the first night at Peck lake. Two additional crew are on board who were found thru the crew finding site called offshore…

A bit more time preparing for launch on March 2 with some time to visit with cruisers and paint some pictures and enjoy the few days of warm weather that finally arrived. Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning are filled with pickleball and the community there. Thursday afternoon are the cruiser socials now with some guitar…

The warmish weather is back in Vero beach and everyone is back on the trails and beach and enjoying the days and nights in typical shorts and t-shirts. I’ve added a new piano to the boat as I had my first boat/ piano bar soirée with other cruisers in the marina one night. More pickleball…

Florida experienced extremely cold temperatures for multiple days and Vero Beach had temperatures of 27 and 17 with windchill. A very coolish week or so but keeping busy organizing a trails project in the Exumas and a trail angel conference in Pinecrest in May. The indoor pickleball a few days a week and boaters Thursday…

I’m starting to get into the Vero beach routine as cruiser in this happy healthy town. A typical day starts with a listen on the boat cruisers net on vhf channel 69 and then a nice hour run and walk into the island part of vero for coffee and mocha. Maybe a bike ride over…

Arrived this morning on the 3rd day of the short sail from Titusville to Vero Beach. An easy sail with crew I recruited from a crew finders group called opo/ offshore passage opportunities. It was about 68 miles. It was nice to be back at Vero where multiple cruisers said / hi Scott / welcome…

Today was the big splash day when the big 50 ton crane came over and grabbed the sailboat and dropped it in the water. Today, with crew I recruited from a crew finders group, we sailed down the icw from Titusville to Cocoa Florida. The winds were lighter at 10-15 and made for an east…

You know you been somewhere a long time when you get invited to the local birding club and everyone at the pickleball club say hi to you with your name. Last week I was kidnapped by 3 birders who we met up again at the famous Dixie crossroads restaurant for more laughs and of course…