Thanks for joining us on our Sojourn to the Carribean! We arrive in Fort Lauderdale where we do final preparations for our gulf stream crossing to the Bahama...

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last time when sailing balachandra we

sailed from st. Augustine to West Palm

Beach

then from West Palm Beach to Fort

Lauderdale to prepare to cross the Gulf

Stream to the Bahamas hey guys we were

just in the birch State Park in Fort

Lauderdale we got into Fort Lauderdale

last night it was a little difficult

there was some bridges to go under the

anchor just were hard to find and

there's a lot of shallow water and

really narrow channels and a lot of

partiers and a lot of crazy stuff going

on but we did Sunday night oh there was

so many partier to cover just zooming

past us there was crazy wakes cruise

ships like so many cruise ships and the

police were like we had cops on

megaphones yelling at us and you do come

in here make sure it's high tide we've

ran aground twice we were trying to get

into the Lake Sylvia Anchorage at the

beginning we ran aground it was tough

but we got in and we did throw down our

anchor just outside of the Las Olas

marina but if you want to go to shore at

Las Olas it's like 20 dollars a day so

we did a little Google mapping and we

found this state park literally maybe 10

20 minute ding you ride north of there

and you can tie up for just a $2.00

donations so I made a lot more sense to

go up here and it's close to the grocery

store and a list

this is the beach here at Fort

Lauderdale there's a place where we

found a place where we can tie up our

dinghy and walk down to the beach here

so I guess we're kind of lucky but it's

not really safe we locked our dinghy

there and should be alright but yeah

it's really pretty here but they don't

allow dogs on the beach or on the

sidewalk next to the beach so we can

only look at the beautiful beach and not

actually go for a swim anyway this is

sailor man Fort Lauderdale a friend of

mine back home told me I've really

needed to come and check out this store

Salem Ann is a store where you can get

new and used boat parts mostly used and

it's unbelievably helpful to be able to

find some of these things that are

either stuff you can't get anymore a lot

of it's rare or made for particular

boats and you might be able to fit it

onto your boat they have everything like

from stainless steel hardware goes

outside your boat two engine parts two

pumps and all kinds of crazy things that

you're not gonna find out West marine so

you know I highly recommend coming to

sailorman and checking it out it was one

of these must have to do things in Fort

Lauderdale for anybody with a sailboat

before we leave and go to either the

berries or to Bimini or wherever we make

our first stop in the Bahamas and they

were amazing I picked up a few things

here and they gave me a free t-shirt how

about that so I'll be working down the

channel I even got a wetsuit for the

Bahamas so I should be all set

sailor man awesome definitely come here

hey guys it's the middle of the night

and we are about to leave Fort

Lauderdale for the Bahamas during

Hurricane durian a lot of the bama's was

pretty devastated it makes more sense

for us to go to a place where we can get

internet and cell phone and all that

stuff so a lot of people have been going

over to the berries instead of some of

the regular places like Freeport or

Grand Bahama so that's our plan

we're going to sail south towards Miami

but then we're also going to sail off

the rum line to make up for the Gulf

Stream so we'll be sailing more in a

southerly direction kind of a south

easterly direction to try and make up

for the current we're leaving in the

middle of the night because that's just

one the best wind ty

and conditions are so we'll be sailing

through the remainder of the night and

into the day tomorrow it should be just

beautiful hopefully but you know the

Gulf Stream is a little unpredictable so

wishes luck

so we are crossing the Gulf Stream from

Florida to the Bahamas where we're going

to do our customs and everything in the

berry islands we left Fort Lauderdale

this morning around 3:00 or 4:00 in the

morning it was really early we came out

into like a really choppy sea it was

like ten foot waves they predicted two

foot waves it was like 10 they predicted

15 knots of wind we had about 20 gusting

to 30 and now we have 28 gusting to 25

which is actually nice we sailed really

well in 20 to 25 we have a southeast

wind blowing so that means we have to

beat into the wind but we've been on one

tack pretty much the whole way which

isn't too bad and the C&C 44 makes

really good time to win so for us this

is a good point of sail and we're doing

just fine so we're about halfway across

from Florida to the Bahamas and very

soon we will be in the berry islands

doing our customs if some other boats

sailing with us here we're not really

sure who they are but a lot of people

are taking advantage of this window

it's a little na Sinopec Oh made it to

the bottom of finally quarantines legacy

and blue we barely had to run the engine

last night it was great

I think we only had the engine on maybe

for four hours out of the 27 it took us

to get here from Fort Lauderdale I can't

believe it finally and it's New Years

Eve so we're gonna get our drink on and

hopefully eat up with some friends that

we met back in Fort Lauderdale I think

we smelled it up now

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we're just coming into great harbour kay

here in the berries and we're motoring

in and it's really tricky the depths

here are pretty shallow I mean it's

probably childlike this all over the

Caribbean but like we draw six nines

right now we have both four or five feet

of water under the keel and we're not

even anywhere near the harbor yet so

it's tricky we're gonna take it easy

we're gonna go slow and hopefully we

don't run aground and we get in there

and get anchored and get our custom

stuff so we officially made it to the

Bahamas check in with customs we did

that flowers go and then we came out and

grabbed through the language here it's

not supposed to have great holding but

we're not expecting high winds tonight

so keep an eye on it but it's New Year's

Eve and we do have to leave the boat a

little while we're gonna go party with

some people on shore do a lot of boaters

here probably like 30 40 boats here

volodymyr from Canada a lot of them did

the crossing with us just in the same

time so you know hang out with them a

good time the Bahamas

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we are sailing just outside of great

harbour kay we spent the last two days

there we did customs the first day the

second day we had to fix our running

lights because on the

did you over we took a few waves on the

battle and I got the seal have gone

so today we have left grape arbor K and

we're sailing around the north of the

island and the beach is over there just

gorgeous we walked across the island

yesterday itself reaches it's late so we

didn't really get into video

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little monkey Oh baby

watch it

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now there's a fish so we were dragging

the line behind us just fishing and

waiting for something happened and

suddenly I look back the line that right

over

we got a big fish I knew

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and I grabbed it I was like oh my god

it's like barely hold on the rod that's

real in there

it was really hard to bring the fish in

because the bow is

it's that slow the boat down and put it

neutral just so I get a fighting chance

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