Tim and Kelsey

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SV GOOSE

We quit our office jobs and have been driving offroad around the world since 2018. Now, as of 2024, we're learning how to sail as we live and work on our Catamaran as we circumnavigate. www.sailingsaltysunrise.com

Tim and Kelsey

Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA • Mar 9, 2025

Distance

322.7nm

Avg. speed

6kts

Duration

2d 5h 29m

The grocery run

Great light wind sail across the Bahamas Bank. 2 Cero Mackerel and our first Mahi on this boat. Now, to rent a car to get mail and spare parts before we leave the USA for a long time.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Mar 4, 2025

When you're waiting on weather to sail, you might as well fill the freezer. 😍🤌

Tim and Kelsey

Hope Town, The Bahamas • Mar 2, 2025

Kelsey's first catch! Kelsey has joined me on every daily dive for fish or shellfish, but today she got her first catch. A couple minutes after she got this lobster the biggest bull shark we've ever seen appeared from the darkness to see what was going on.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Mar 1, 2025

Distance

28.2nm

Avg. speed

6.6kts

Duration

4h 16m

5 Barracuda kind of day

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 28, 2025

Hogfish for dinner.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 28, 2025

A sharky spot. We take a bucket of guts away in the dinghy to dump away from the anchorage, but a couple sharks and barracuda show up every day. They must be used to daily scraps from boats. 😬

Tim and Kelsey

Feb 27, 2025

Distance

37.6nm

Avg. speed

7kts

Duration

5h 21m

Off to the Raggeds with every sail up.

Beautiful sail with light winds on the beam to Flamingo Cay. 🦩

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 26, 2025

Distance

21.8nm

Avg. speed

7kts

Duration

3h 7m

Motoring over glass

Happy to have dolphins visit. It's been a while!

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 26, 2025

Distance

14.6nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

2h 49m

Evening trip

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 20, 2025

Distance

18.8nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

3h 4m

Parental sail back to protection for tomorrow's blow.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 20, 2025

Distance

3.3nm

Avg. speed

6.9kts

Duration

29m

Morning trip

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 20, 2025

Distance

15.9nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

2h 38m

Great day sail with the Parents

It's been special to show my parents our new floating home and new life. Perfect light wind sail with the Asym. We had to take Bob to "Bob Cay"

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 17, 2025

Distance

29.3nm

Avg. speed

5.1kts

Duration

5h 47m

2.8 knots under sail until the Yanmar wind had to be called in🌬️

Beautiful day, no wind.

Tim and Kelsey

Stuart Manor, Great Exuma, Exuma, The Bahamas • Feb 17, 2025

A couple bugs, one giant, and a schoolmaster. Dinner for the next couple nights is sorted. Now we have to figure out how to cook this giant without overcooking the outside or leaving the inside raw.

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Tim and Kelsey

Rolleville, Exuma, The Bahamas • Feb 15, 2025

If you squint, it's mint. A Dremel, Sikaflex, more delrin ball bearings and some old parts to make the jib car work. 🤞🤞🤞

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 14, 2025

We had some friends come by the boat when we were spearing dinner. 😬🦈

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Tim and Kelsey

Feb 14, 2025

Distance

30.1nm

Avg. speed

7.7kts

Duration

3h 54m

Actually sailing the direction we want to go 🤣

30 miles sailed before noon. Good day. 👍

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 13, 2025

Distance

21.9nm

Avg. speed

7.3kts

Duration

Beating and breaking shit

Ol Goose decided to let his jib car balls out. Now we play pickemup and see if we find them all. We do have spare though. 🤞

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 12, 2025

Distance

30.3nm

Avg. speed

7.1kts

Duration

4h 14m

Ripping and bashing into it.

Great sail! Bashing away into a surprisingly big swell. @SV_Allure caught some video of us as we crossed paths. 🙌

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Tim and Kelsey

Feb 9, 2025

Distance

29.4nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

4h 42m

Floatchella Bound

This is serious stuff for serious people. Time to float on inflatable unicorns and bake in the sun. 🫡

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 8, 2025

Distance

15.6nm

Avg. speed

6.9kts

Duration

2h 17m

Whompa sailing!

Light wind nice little sail. This boat does so good in flat water. Nice work Goose 🪿 😍

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Tim and Kelsey

Uyuni, Antonio Quijarro, Departamento de Potosí, Bolivia • Feb 6, 2025

People ask if we prefer overlanding or sailing? Not that offroading, meeting cool people all over the world and digging a hole to 💩 every day for 7 years wasn't fun, but... Sailing is otherworldly. We plan to jump in a truck or on motorcycles for a break as we circumnavigate, but if we can only choose one... We stay in the water. ⛵🌊

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Feb 4, 2025

Something about a DC-3. Still almost 200 examples in use around the world and they were built almost a century ago. That's mind blowing. Most reliable plane ever?

Tim and Kelsey

Jan 30, 2025

Good times with friends. We met up at Schooner Cay and after a long day of spearfishing we headed to a small sandbar to have a fire and cook dinner before the tide came in and erased our presence.

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Tim and Kelsey

Jan 30, 2025

Distance

24.4nm

Avg. speed

5kts

Duration

4h 51m

Heading over to the top of the Exumas!

Good slow sail with the Spinnaker out

Tim and Kelsey

Jan 28, 2025

Distance

22.7nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

3h 34m

Schooner Cay exploring

Great sail with the Asymmetrical Spinnaker, Jib and Main out. Boat speed matching wind speed. Then a sketchy shallow route through sand banks to the Cay.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 27, 2025

Distance

6.6nm

Avg. speed

6.7kts

Duration

59m

What a bloody great day to go sailing

Chasing our friends down on the way to Governor's.

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 23, 2025

Distance

15.8nm

Avg. speed

7.3kts

Duration

2h 11m

Fun quick sail along Eleuthra.

Beautiful day for a sail!

Tim and Kelsey

Jan 21, 2025

For those who've explored the Bahamas extensively. What's the most remote area in the Bahamas? More importantly, check out this Batman Golf Cart we saw today. What a legend. 🦇 #mustseegolfcart

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Tim and Kelsey

Jan 20, 2025

Distance

51.9nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

8h 17m

On to Eleuthra!

Time for a new island and new exploring.

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 17, 2025

If you have to wait on weather you might as well go hunting for dinner.

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 16, 2025

Good eating. We saw and picked up our first Carribean King Crab and nabbed a grey Snapper while we were at it.

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 15, 2025

Distance

15.5nm

Avg. speed

0.6kts

Duration

1d 1h 48m

Breakin shit

We had a nice sail out of Marsh Harbor after provisioning. While ripping along at 9.5 knots we had our jib sheet block snap. Found a spot to anchor and made repairs. Kelsey spliced an endless dyneema loop to use as the anchor point and off we went. We anchored at the beach club and found an old fiberglass batten to use in our sail bag. (We had to poach ours to put in the sail a couple weeks ago)

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 12, 2025

Distance

5.9nm

Avg. speed

3.4kts

Duration

1h 44m

Slow rolling/trolling to get Kelsey's first fish!

Kelsey first fish she's EVER caught. Of many to come I'm sure.

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Tim and Kelsey

Hope Town, The Bahamas • Jan 9, 2025

The Bahamas are ridiculous. That is all.

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Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 2, 2025

Distance

14.8nm

Avg. speed

5.4kts

Duration

2h 44m

Junkcanoo and fishing

Tim and Kelsey

The Bahamas • Jan 1, 2025

Distance

24.4nm

Avg. speed

5.4kts

Duration

4h 32m

Downwind to Junkcanoo festival!

Great sail to Green Turtle with the Spinnaker.

Tim and Kelsey

North Abaco, The Bahamas • Dec 31, 2024

It's been another great year. It's a blur from Vietnam to Baja to throwing out low offers on boats, to getting one accepted, to driving cross country and moving aboard, sailing to New York, heading back west to work in Wyoming and Oregon, back to the Chesapeake Bay and now onward to the Bahamas. We can't imagine what next year will hold. Happy New Year!! 🥂🔱

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Tim and Kelsey

North Abaco, The Bahamas • Dec 31, 2024

Distance

26.8nm

Avg. speed

6kts

Duration

4h 27m

Happy New Year!

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Tim and Kelsey

Dec 31, 2024

Distance

19.5nm

Avg. speed

5.3kts

Duration

3h 40m

Cay hopping.

We lost a couple fish trawling, but made up for it with the spear and gloves. We speared a lionfish and picked up five nice lobster. 🤤

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Tim and Kelsey

West Grand Bahama, The Bahamas • Dec 27, 2024

Distance

64.9nm

Avg. speed

6kts

Duration

10h 52m

Sail to the Bahamas.

Great sail to the Bahamas. Had to tack a couple times, but otherwise we had some perfect wind to sail over. No other boats headed out from West Palm with us so we were worried we'd chosen poorly. Glad we trusted our gut and went for it. It's wild to think that we've arrived to our first new country via boat. Sixty something countries together since we hit the road, but the boat chapter is going to be epic.

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Tim and Kelsey

Palm Beach, FL, USA • Dec 25, 2024

Distance

18.8nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

New Sails Day!

I'm a sailor, I sail... Happy Holidays! The best present was our new sails arriving. We made a quick sail to West Palm to stage to finally leave the USA. Can't wait! We hope you had a great Festivus! To a great 2025! 🍻🥂

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Tim and Kelsey

Martin County, FL, USA • Dec 17, 2024

Splicing lines. We've done a LOT of winch line splicing over the years, but this double braid hits differently. It took a couple tries, but happy with the result. 🤌🕺

Tim and Kelsey

Martin County, FL, USA • Dec 10, 2024

There is no better place to wake up than on the hook. ⚓ 🔱 Good morning, happy holidays and all hail coffee. ☕ 🙌

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Tim and Kelsey

Martin County, FL, USA • Nov 28, 2024

We're not watching friends head to the Bahamas with any envy or jealousy at all. 🥲 Hopefully we head that way in a couple weeks! 😁🤙

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Tim and Kelsey

Martin County, FL, USA • Nov 23, 2024

Distance

19.3nm

Avg. speed

6.8kts

Duration

2h 50m

Surfing

Preventers rigged to prevent an accidental jibe and we surfed down waves directly down wind.

Tim and Kelsey

Indian River County, FL, USA • Nov 18, 2024

Distance

52.6nm

Avg. speed

7kts

Duration

7h 28m

Motorsailing

After some delays to a bridge opening this morning we motor sailed until the wind picked up. Then we snapped a line for our mainsail and fixed it after a couple hours. Then we broke our furler as we put the job away. 🥲

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Tim and Kelsey

Brevard County, FL, USA • Nov 17, 2024

Distance

114.3nm

Avg. speed

6.2kts

Duration

18h 34m

Our first lock, bridge opening and later today Rocket launch.

We were ripping for most of the sail. 6 to 9 and even saw 10 for a bit. Then the wind died and we motored the last 15 miles into Cape Canaveral.

Tim and Kelsey

St Johns County, FL, USA • Nov 13, 2024

Distance

56nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

8h 50m

Spinnaker sailing.

A nice light wind sail. Now we figure out if Hurricane Sara is going to chase us back North.

Tim and Kelsey

Camden County, GA, USA • Nov 10, 2024

Back in action!