Our Adventures with Seaquel

March 17, Happy St. Patricks Day! Hope your day is magically delicious! We unstuck our anchor at Camp George Town on Wednesday, March 4th for our cruise to Long Island. Long Island is Southeast of George Town, and is our southernmost destination this year. It was a 35 nautical mile cruise and a beautiful day. I’m always so happy when we are cruising. We passed many deserted beaches and it was a beautiful cruise. With about an hour to go we realized we were having alternator charging issues which eventually led to the starboard motor dying. Somehow, we lost that fuel pump. We were able to finish our cruise on the port motor, anchored in the NE part of the anchorage and were boat number 12. By Thursday night there were 50 boats in the anchorage, getting ready to hide from the next blow.  We dropped the dinghy, and went less than a mile to the dinghy dock at Basil’s and walked up the hill to the Hillside Grocery Store. It was a really well stocked store, regular exorbitant Bah...

Sunday, March 8, 2020 We arrived in Galliott Bay from Shroud Cay on February 19th. We dropped the dinghy and went to shore where we met Pam & Steve from SV Morning Dew and Carol and Rudy also from a sailboat, I forget the name. We were all anchored in Galliott Bay intending to depart in the morning for Georgetown.  Before heading back to our boat we went searching for a cave but quickly decided the waves in the cut were too big for Zoom. It was beautiful though. Spent the night rocking and rolling in the anchorage! Searching for the cave. At first light we had the engines fired up and the anchor lifted for our cruise on the outside to Georgetown. We hobby horsed up and down in 4-6’ seas for the next 6 hours. It really wasn’t too bad. Hung out in the pilot house and counted down the hours as we watched a few sail boats and the occasional cruiser.  They say no schedules when cruising but our friends were flying to Georgetown on Sunday and they were predicting high...