SAILING
"To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities."
~Bruce Lee
So, did I go where I planned on going?
The short answer to that is, “Yes, where it’s warm…both water and air.” I’m not being a smartass. I really didn’t know exactly where I would end up. Sure, I had intentions, but I have learned from past experience that it is best to let people know where I am going after I get there. Have you ever told anyone what you are planning, then change your mind for whatever reason, and then gotten criticized for not doing what you told others you were originally planning on doing? If so, now you understand.
I ended up loving an uninhabited island in the Abacos of the Bahamas. Powell Cay as a destination was totally unexpected and completely unplanned. I simply felt called to go there as I approached it one day back in March 2023.
I took off from Norfolk, VA on November 28, 2023, and headed south down to West Palm Beach, Florida. Some of the trek was in the ICW (the Ditch) and some of the trek was in the Ocean. Basically, I got sick of the Ditch by the time I arrived in the Charleston, SC area. From then on, I went out into the Atlantic in four separate passages to West Palm Beach.
After that, I spent two months in the Bahamas. From the Bahamas, I skipped South Florida and headed straight to St. Augustine, Florida.
The Longtail is now in Brunswick, Georgia where I arrived on May 30, 2023. She’ll remain there for hurricane season…unless something changes.
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Alone at sea aboard the S/V Cuddy on the way to Bermuda alone in 2011.