Steve and Laura's Excellent Adventure

A few days after my return from Baltimore - on Super Bowl Sunday - our friends Jan and Mark met us Telemar Bay Marina to make the Bahamas crossing and share the first leg of this season's adventure.  As I mentioned in my last post, the primary objective was lobster. We planned to leave Florida from either Stuart or Palm Beach depending on the wind direction, so we started heading south via Intracoastal Waterway the day after their arrival even though the wind conditions weren't favorable.  It took us three days to make it to West Palm Beach, stopping at anchorages in Vero Beach and Jensen Beach along the way.  Our timing was good, though, and the weather the next morning was perfect for our trip to the northern Abacos. We had beautiful sailing conditions all day and arrived on Little Bahama Bank at dusk.  We tried something new this time and anchored on the bank overnight since it was predicted to be super-calm. The Little Bahama Bank is a shallow area between the is...