S/V Aphrodite

Leaving Georgetown was hard where we had  a good grocery store, liquor store and cheap wireless internet on the boat.
We had a full moon the night before we left and this apparently affected the fishing as we trolled 8 hrs in prime fishing water on the way to Conception Island without catching anything, nada, nothing. We [...]

We arrived in Georgetown yesterday after 3 weeks in the Exumas.  We found our friends Pete and Chris on Scooter.  Over the years they have shown us how to spearfish, hunt lobster, find shells and sea glass, and weave palm fronds.  We hung out in a secret cove along with Monty and Sara, the creators [...]

Our life has slowed down again, where the most urgent task for the day is finding a place to buy groceries or do the laundry. Aphrodite has been in the Bahamas for about 2 weeks now, where “it is all about the water”. The landscape doesn’t hold a candle to the magnificent water, crystal clear [...]

Aphrodite is homeward bound!
We departed the Bahamas this morning and will sail directly to Baltimore, about 750 miles. The winds were predicted to be 15-20 knots coming from the ESE. I know that we are likely to run into storms along the way because the East coast has lots of cloud cover in the satellite [...]