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We are still in Georgetown. We’ll be staying through the opening day of the regatta….a very big deal here in the Bahamas. We have been cruising with another Kid boat from Maine called Stary Night and some experienced Bahamas cruisers on a 58′ Krogen, Far Reaches.

Georgetown is a pretty unique place, centered around cruising sailors. There are lots of actiivies and good beaches. Jasper and I have been playing Vollyball and perhaps I’ll try out Yoga tomorrow. The only downside is the long and wet dingy ride back to the boat anchored across the harbor(hence the lack of postings). We’ll be heading up the Exuma chain starting on Friday.

We have spent the last week and half cruising the out islands of the Bahamas. Needless to say, it has been very remote, often with no one around. We have had our share of empty beaches, great snorkeling. If it weren’t for the fact that we have run out of almost everything, we’d still be out there. We’ll be here for a bit….more later.

We had a great passage with some great sailing. We were joined by two other boats (Starbound and Naia). Some of the highlights include a swim in 6500 ft of water in the middle of the ocean, a swim in 10 feet of water in the middle of the Caicos Bank, and catching a big fish that got away.

We are enjoying Culebra…the water is clear, the sun is hot, and the fishing is great. We managed to catch some Lobsters and kill a Lion fish. I even managed to get some surfing in.

We have managed to hook with a lot of kid boats (Begonia from Evanston, Naia from Washington, Starbound from Maine).

We’ll be moving to the Turks and Caicos Tomorrow. This should take us 3 or 4 days. We’ll be traveling with two other kid boats, Naia and Starbound. Once we hit the T&C’s, it should be just day sails up the Bahama chain.

right now we’re in Culebra.  in two days we’re going to make a three to four day overnight passege from Culebra to Turks and Caicos. Nothing much is happening we’re about to have dinner.

Right now, we are in Culebra, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.  Nothing much is happening. We’re just hanging out and swimming, snorkiling, and having fun in the sun. We are going to have a 3 day over night passage in a few days, from Culebra to Turks and Caicos or, as I think of them, turkey and cake flavored Cherios.

We have had a great stay in St. Martin. We moved from the lagoon to the Fort St. Louis Marina to be closer to our friends from Starbound.

Because we have some good cruising friends here (Bonzai 1 and Starbound), we have been quite busy (hence the lack of blogs). Our social life has been quite busy with dinners, evenings out, excursions, etc. We also met up with a bunch of other Maine boats (some were South going Zax and others were North going going Zax….I guess that Maine going Zaxs are the best kind of Zaxs so it doesn’t matter what kind of Zax you are, as long as you are from Maine)

Starbound arranged for a group of us to sail on the wooden schooner Charlotte built by Nate Benjamin from Vineyard Haven. We had a great sail and really enjoyed sailing around St. Martin. Nate was here to pick up some close friends that had chartered the Schooner the following day.

It turns out that a close family friend, Tanya Bokat, her husband David and daughter Eva were part of the group that was chartering Charlotte. Tanya was walking the dock when she noticed Indulgence and said hello. We were able to sit for while and share some old stories and talk about our families.

Our dad’s were the best of friends…sadly Dr. Bokat died this time last year and my dad died a week or so later on April 1st. I think that they had something to do with this chance meeting.

We are planning on heading North on Wednesday with an overnight sail to St. John. It will tough saying good bye to our friends, but other adventures still await us.

yesterday night we went to tropicana for a friends birthday dinner for 14(10 grownups 4 kids).  when we got to tropicana, we saw a table set for 14 but no one in sight, so we wait around 20 minutes, then my dad and i get in the dinghy and drive out to are boat to get a radio and a walkietalkie. when we get back -surprise,surprise guess who’s there – all thepeople. the rest of dinner went really fast, but finaly, the best part of all-THE CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we ate that then since we were really tierd we went back to the boat and fell to sleep qickly

Right now, we are in St.  Marten, a french island. So, we have good bread and, hallalulia, internet. Also, we have friends with kids. One night, we went with our friends to the weekly Tuesday night thingamajig. We went to cafe Palmos for dinner, had a paper airplane contest, did a lot of acrobatics, and eventually ended up spying on our parents. After we were captured, we headed back down the road to get to their rental car. When we were about half way there, we started hearing the hooters and honkers as I call them. So, here come these women, with not much more then colorful bras and underwear on, parading down the street and shaking their butts. When we finaly got to the car, it was pouring. So we used the old pile in method from the old days.

We had an uneventful sail from Barbuda to St. Martin. We have been quite busy re-connecting with friends and boat projects. As we mentioned in previous blogs, we really enjoy St. Martin. We’ll be here for a while waiting for a weather window to for an overnight sail to the USVI.