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After clicking on a post and reading it, hit the “Back” button on your browser to return to this page so that you can read only the highlighted posts. Otherwise, if you click the “Next Post” button on the post page, you will be stuck reading the whole blog! WordPress really sucks sometimes! (Okay, fine. Mel sucks at WordPress. This is hard, people!) There are still a lot of posts– about 135. Hop to it!

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    Cat Days

    Currently in between guests, the Burnetts have been experiencing what they call, “Cat Days.”  These are the sort of days that separate the cruisers from the charterers or the daysailors. For us, “Cat Days” are days where one lies around our cat, like an old cat, along with our old cat.  If anything productive gets…

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    Oh, Samana!

    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…

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    Our Happy Place

    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…

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