Snail trail had the lead to start, Lost lost a tube at the start 🤦‍♀️ and I had to rip in Cannoli to get it back. About halfway through we managed to pass the snail trail and they never recovered. We have suspicions that they let us win :/. Is that true, snails?! It was pretty sporty out there, today!

Floatchella was amazing this year! Met so many rad cruisers that I’ll be staying in touch with from now on. Today it seemed everyone thought it was a good call to head south so we reluctantly followed like sheep. Plowing into waves at 7.5 kts is painful, so we reefed Lost to the max and worked our way down slowly. Plan to stay in Pipe creek for a few days kiteboarding if anyone wants to join.

Got here a day early to watch the Super Bowl at anchor before our raftup tomorrow. Excited for the next couple of days here in paradise 🇧🇸

So glad we came down! Watching the classic Bahamian sloops battle it out was awesome 🇧🇸 Heading up to Shroud now for Floaaaaaatchella 🏴

Had a blast watching the traditional Bahamian sloop boat race at little farmers cay. I was rooting for Sassy Sue, Brian wanted Termite to win, but Slaughter, quite literally slaughtered everyone wining most if not all the races. Made it to staniel to restock before Floatchella in Shroud!

Nice motor sail from Shroud down to Soldier Cay filled with unfinished Yahtzee and chess games. I guess that means I lost. It was a last minute call to make our way into Soldier instead of anchoring at Bell but I’m glad we squeezed through. The sand ripples in the area are so big that you’d swear you’re about to run aground. Makes you feel small seeing it from above

Really light wind sail to start the day but it picked up to a solid 15kts at the beam in the afternoon. You never get used to the water out here… surreal

Now it’s time to work our way to the Exumas for a chill couple of weeks before Floatchella! There’s a group created for Floatchella at Shroud, make sure to join it for details on the event as it gets closer 🤙🏼

Magenta line never looks like the right path but I’m real glad it is 🙌🏼. Near impossible to judge this route by site. Dark, dark patches on the bottom always have you thinking you’re headed for reef 🪸. Sticking around for about a week.

More wind than forecasted made it a good one but no luck on the lines. Excited to spend a little time here before the Exumas 🤙🏼

We will miss the Abacos and Hope Town specifically but we are picking up friends next week in Governors Harbor!

Busiest I’ve ever seen the Little Harbour mooring field. Only one ball available. Flew the jib and putzed our way back to HT. Bonfire on the beach tonight if you didn’t see the hail!

Got on the usual ball in Hope Town Harbour today and it feels good to be back!

We almost made it to the market but then saw a big dark cloud in the distance…so we had to turn around and close hatches. Made it back in the nick of time! 😅 😮‍💨🌧️ 🌈 We had hopes of getting rid of unwanted stowaways with the light breeze while we were gone…we got invaded with no-see-ums last night and they refuse to leave Lost and we are getting mowed on😩😳 We eventually made it to the Farmers Market and we made out pretty good! It’s one of the best farmers markets I’ve been too on the east coast! So much good food, beautiful crafts and of course some live music 🎶 We have since arrive back to the boat and are still getting munched on, anyone know how to get rid of these little bugger?! The No Natz spray isn’t doing the trick!

What a trip, I’m beat. Can’t wait for a hot shower and a good night sleep. We sailed a good amount but we kept getting stuck in pockets of no wind on Wednesday/Thursday and Friday we knew we would be motoring but we decided to continue on ways rather than stopping in Fernandina Beach, luckily the wind picked up that evening but still random hours the wind would drop. Saturday it started to get dicy, the wind picked up and we had random rainstorms in and out but mellowed out as we neared the inlet. Luckily we were able the time the current getting into Fort Pierce around 10pm. Oh yeah and we caught a trap on our prop Saturday afternoon, way to rough to cut it off, we managed with one engine and good wind to get us to anchor. That will be tomorrow’s project along with cleaning up this boat after 4 days off shore 😅

It was a rougher start coming out of the wrightsville beach inlet and then motoring into the wind for 6 hours around Cape Fear. The sailing got pretty good, the wind picked up and we had to put another reef in the main and we were cruising pretty good until this morning at 7 when the wind died, but we had some visitors who put on a show for us! Hoping the wind picks up again soon!