Rosie crosses the Gulf

We made the crossing with our friends on "Jenny" - We met Roger and Ginny on our first trip to Marsh Harbour so it was fitting that we made our crossing together!


We stayed one night at Great Sale Cay - a deserted island near the edge of the Bahama Bank. We anchored on the edge of the Bank for our second night of the crossing. It was very rough as the tides opposed the current and the wind rose to 20 knots! When we started out at 4am the winds had died to 5 knots and the crossing was totally uneventful - except for dodging a giant sea turtle !




We arrived in Fort Pierce Florida and Rosie underwent a refit - everything from the teak to the electronics was redone. It was a hard couple of months but everything works great and we are set for the next year of sailing!!






The highlight of our Fort Pierce trip was Robb's visit - here we are in Ft. Pierce and South Miami Beach !



I love this poem - It explains exactly what our winter has been ! No one understands when we complain about what went wrong - the skinny water that grabbed us, the propeller coupling that refused to stay coupled, the barge that knocked out the directional markers...however all this did happen in Paradise with all those fruity drinks and lots of great friends who knew exactly what we were talking about so maybe..... we'll go back again next year ....