The Voyages Of Sonas And Her Crew

01/16/2025

Talk about tardy! I usually keep a running blog/photo blog while we are on our annual 3 month cruise to the Bahamas, then post weekly updates. Last year for some reason I did not. I was planning to pull it together as soon as we got back. Then I guess I got busy, or maybe just lazy! Anyhow I finally got it all written during this Florida cold snap. And I think I remembered most things! Here it is eight months late!

Bahamas 2024 June 1, 2024 Sonas Leave a comment Jacksonville to Exuma Exumas Part 1 Exumas Part 2 2024 National Family Islands Regatta Abaco and Home

10/29/2024

Short photoblog on our recent trip to Cumberland Island National Seashore. https://atanchor.com/cumberland-island-october-2024/

09/29/2024

It's a start!

05/09/2024

Grilling up top and this "little" guy must have smelled it!

05/07/2024

On a mooring ball at Warderick Wells.

04/26/2024

Some images of yesterday afternoon's A Class race at the National Family Islands Regatta in George Town, Exuma.

11/14/2023

Blog report on our four great days at Cumberland Island last week.

Cumberland Island Fall Cruise November 14, 2023 Sonas Leave a comment Sonas Sonas has been at home dock for the majority of late summer. Most of this was due to some traveling that we did off the boat, but we also took the opportunity to do some maintenance and updating. We replaced every battery on...

11/08/2023

Interesting anchor watch pattern this morning. Absolutely flat calm overnight so we just wandered around, especially at slack tide!

06/13/2023

We are home from this year's Bahamas trip. This is the report of the final two weeks, weeks 8 and 9. It is pretty photos intensive as we were giving the Abaco tour to our guests.

Bahamas 2023 – Weeks 8 and 9 June 13, 2023 Sonas Leave a comment [Weeks 6 and 7 report here] Beach at Tranquil Turtle, Bluff House Sunday May 21st – Monday May 22nd – Green Turtle Club Next stop on the grand tour of Abaco with our friends Frank and Julie was lovely Green Turtle Cay. This would...

06/08/2023

The latest report on our Bahamas 2023 cruise, weeks 6 and 7 - includes how we lost our drone!

Bahamas 2023 – Weeks 6 And 7 June 8, 2023 Sonas Leave a comment [Week 5 here] Sailing the Sea of Abaco Saturday May 6th – Sunday May 7th – Green Turtle Cay We had just spent two wonderful days anchored at Powell Cay, but with wind with gusts to the mid-30s in the forecast we decided to head ba...

06/02/2023

Woke up this morning at West End thinking that we would be stuck there for another week. Looked at Windy, Windfinder and NOAA and it looked like a chance today. Only iffy was the storms coming off the low in the gulf. So we waited for the early Chris Parker report which basically said the same thing, variable direction up to 12-14 knots but nasty stuff coming off Florida as we neared. So we decided to go.
Wind was not variable, blowing 12-14 steady from the NW. Swells got up to around 4-5 but nicely rounded nothing sharp or breaking. Downside was that they were not consistent and it was a bit of a washing machine.
True to the forecasts as we got to 18nms from Fort Pierce we saw the storms coming at us - moving southeast. Using the radar we turned East and skirted the south edge of the first one, got some guests to 39 and heavy rain but just for about 5 minutes then we snuck past. We found that by then heading on our line back to Fort Pierce we could avoid the next storm - and we did! Got through the inlet at 5pm and tied up at Vero Beach City Marina by 6:15. Got quickly accepted in via ROAM, Bella to the great little dog park, and now cooking sweet Italian Sausage for dinner!

06/02/2023

Dodging storms on our way from West End to to Fort Pierce!