A blog by nerds afloat
This morning, the Burnett’s guests were safely delivered into the hands of Mr. Wilson, Eleutheran taxi driver, and now Mel can finally blog as she floats just off a beach on Meeks Patch Cay and gazes at the beautiful…80 foot … Read More
The Burnetts are visiting their old friend, “Bob.” You may recall that Mel renamed Long Island, Bahamas, Bob, replacing a common island name with a common baby name and therefore creating an uncommon island name. Or something like that. So … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More