The trip home

We arrived Treasure Cay for the last time on Thursday May 12th, Captain Mike Bancroft, my crew Bob Clark, Ed Ballard and myself. We spent Friday preparing and provisioning the boat for off shore, reviewing the weather forecast and route from Commanders and going over our watch schedule and safety procedures.  We left Treasure Cay at sunrise on Saturday morning. We made great time off shore using the front side of a low pressure cold front that was moving up the East coast. Max SOG 11.2 kts, best day distance 177 nm, totally 952 miles in 7 days. We encountered some heavy weather with 12-15 ft. seas, rain squalls, severe lightening and 30-40 mph winds but the boat and crew performed exceptionally well. Both Eddie and myself caught fish and Eddie won the "how much fuel did we use" pool with 63 gallons. The bad weather persisted up the entire East coast. We cleared U.S. Customs by telephone in route on Friday morning and we made landfall at Atlantic Highlands, N.J. on Friday afternoon around 2:30 pm. We continued up through N.Y. harbor, the East River and into the Long Island Sound Friday night and arrived Guilford, CT. safe and sound amidst dense fog early Saturday morning.
You can view our course recorded by the SPOT transponder at: http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view/?trip_id=255169.

Easter vacation with the family

We arrived Treasure Cay around noon on Good Friday April 22nd.  Me, Keila, Jasen, Jennifer, my son-in-law James and my two granddaughters Jayden age 4 and Chloe 5 months.  We immediately changed into our bathing suites and headed to the Coco Beach Bar for lunch and enjoy the rest of the afternoon on the beach.  This is the week of the Bahamas Billfish Tournament  http://www.bahamasbillfish.com/  at Treasure Cay Marina organized by our neighbor Al Behrendt and Brenda from the "Still Uncontrollable". On Saturday morning we went to the supermarket, provisioned the boat and left for Hope Town around 10:30 am.  It was sunny and warm. but we had a head wind so we had to motor all the way.  We arrived in Hope Town around 1:30 pm and picked-up a mooring.  The kids put the motor on the dinghy and went exploring and snorkling at the beach. Saturday night we had dinner at the Harbors Inn Resturant.  We awoke Easter Sunday to a breezy but beautiful day.  We went to the Abacos Inn for lunch and to relax by their pool.  Sunday night we had dinner on the boat.  Monday was miserable, windy and rainy all day and we were stuck on the boat.  We took advantage of a weather window late in the afternoon, packed-up and left for Guana Cay.  Fishers Bay was crowded but we found a mooring and the kids went swiming and snorkling off the boat.  Grabbers was closed so we went to Nippers for dinner.  We were planning to spend Tuesday on the beach and although it didn't rain the weather wasn't much better so we dropped the mooring and headed back to Treasure Cay where it was absolutely beautiful the rest of the day. James had to leave Wednesday morning and we spent the rest of the time at the beach and the pool.  Wednesday night we were guests of our friend Elias at the Bahamas Club for Itialian night.  Thursday morning Jasen and I fueled up the boat and did some maintanence chores before going to the beach.  Thursday night was Pizza night at the marina.  Friday morning we cleaned and secured the dinghy on deck for the trip home and Friday night we had dinner onboard the boat after spending the afternoon at the beach . Saturday morning we packed and cleaned the boat and departed for the airport at 3:00 pm. The trip home was uneventful. We arrived home around 1:00 am. Jasen drove home and Jennifer and the kids spent the night.