Bahamas – Finale

We left Marsh Harbor on Saturday April 3 and sailed straight through to Brunswick. We arrived in Brunswick last night at 9:45 PM. The trip from Marsh to Brunswick was 408 miles and it took us 60 hours. We sailed, motor sailed and motor. We had no wind yesterday the ocean was like glass. I am guessing we saw over 50 turtles and we had a couple of dolphins following us for a while. On Sunday afternoon we had a visitor, a small sparrow looking bird. Now mind you we were over 50 miles from land and how this bird manage to fly this far out is beyond me. He inspected the whole boat and finally spent the night in the dingy before continuing his journey the next morning. We had two hour watches for the trip. Some of the watches went by really quick and I always managed to get the 2-4 AM watch, which I really enjoyed. Jack was on watch from 6-8 AM and he as well as Scott saw the space shuttle launch on Monday morning. They called us up on deck and we saw the tail end of the launch, very impressive. We fish a good bit on the trip home and manage to catch several small Tuna, Snapper and one Barracuda. We took the poles out of the water on Monday when we were really trying to make good time, to avoid getting into Brunswick at night. What Islands did we like the best, hard to say each was different. Bad weather. The first half of the trip was cold and rain a good bit. The highest winds we had was 37 mph and we were tripled reef and never felt uncomfortable. Went we landed we all had a glass of Baileys and toasted the trip. Before the last of the Baileys there was all ready talk about next years trip. The total trip covered 1429 miles. Living the Dream The Crew of the SV Celebration