Well this has been a crazy start to our 2020 sailing season. An injury to my back before Christmas delayed our return to Crimson Kathryn by almost a month. Fortunately, the marina she has been resting in, is excellent and they were very willing to let us stay an extra month.
We returned back to our winter home on Jan. 25th, after taking a slow drive down (it was better for my back to do short days so we stopped twice – spreading our drive over 3 days). It sure is nice to be back aboard and getting ready for our journey to the Bahamas.
Our plans have changed quite a bit because of our delay in returning to the boat. We are still heading to the Bahamas but not Turks and Caicos. Caroline and our friend Jim Ryan are joining us at the end of February. They both changed their flights to Nassau from Turks and Caicos. We will probably spend the bulk of our time in the more northern part of the Bahamas. We’ll visit New Providence (that’s the island Nassau is on), the Berries and Eleuthera. Not sure we will make our way down through the Exumas but we might go to Cambridge Cay.
We have spent the past week getting ready to leave Jacksonville. We did our provisioning yesterday (Friday, Jan 31) and that was lots of fun!! Our boat has added several pounds – of food, alcohol and water, and we are now ready to head south along the ICW (Intracoastal waterway). We hope to make our way down to Fort Lauderdale by next weekend and then jump across to Freeport, Grand Bahamas as soon as the weather permits. Our goal is to get to New Providence before Feb. 23 – that’s when Caroline arrives. We have given ourselves lots of time to get there so now we just need to get the weather to cooperate!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 
Enjoyed chatting with you on Christmas 68 this morning during our transit from Fort Pierce to Lake Worth. Consider purchasing a Soda Stream as it doesn’t require electricity and soda water is easy to make so you won’t have to store bottles. We love ours.
S/V Yemaya
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