Like many other cruisers, we were going to skip the tiny island of Samana on our way north. The charts depict it as an island surrounded by reefs and shipwrecks, and multiple cruiser’s websites basically say, “Don’t go there.” However, we were fortunate enough to run into super-experienced cruisers Bob and Linda of MV Veda…
The Burnetts are in our happy place—the Bahamas! We shot up to Mayaguana from Anegada on a beautiful, straightforward, trouble-free three-day passage where we flew the spinnaker in 10-22 kts of true wind almost the entire time, averaging 7.1 kts and gibing once as the wind was almost directly up our stern. Arriving in Mayaguana…
The Burnetts are back in the British Virgin Islands, where they last were with Greg’s mom and her husband in December 2015. It was a long overnight from Antigua to here, and Marvin zoomed past a lot of great spots they will have to see some other time: St. Kitt’s, St. Bart’s, St. Martin, Saba… …
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