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Christi and Eric circumnavigated the globe aboard Kosmos from 2007-2009. The underway post where it got started. There are about 800 posts from the trip.
After various upgrades and maintenance in San Diego from 2023 to Dec 2024: We’ve Started Another Cruising Adventure! We went through the Panama Canal and bound for the Caribbean, Bahamas, and the East Coast of the USA.
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We’d read that the statue was hard to see while snorkeling because it was kind of deep, and they recommended going at low tide, when it was only about 10-feet down, for the best views. While they could see it, it was tough. Low tide meant a strong current, and it took a lot of strength to stay in place over the statue in order to get a good look at it. From what they could see, it appeared the statue was a 1:1 scale of a person and a grand piano.
Wednesday, January 21 — This morning we woke up to find that the weather was not what was forecast. It was supposed to be nice, but it was actually windy and rainy. We’d planned to go hiking with Bogumila on shore, but hiking was canceled due to the rain.
The kids in our anchorage got together onboard one of the boats for about 45-minutes, then all the catamarans left to go to an anchorage called Rudder Cut Cay. We didn’t follow because the pass into Rudder was one of those shallow passes that we could only go through at high tide — and high tide had already passed.
After they left, the wind shifted direction by a little bit, and the anchorage went back to uncomfortable. We were worried about how much the wind would pick up overnight and how uncomfortable it may get. Not long after we’d started to worry about how uncomfortable it was going to get, Tiki Tour texted that they weren’t going to go all the way to Rudder tonight. They were going to spend the night in an anchorage called Musha Cay. They’d finish the trek to Rudder Cay tomorrow.
Eric checked to make sure it was a suitable route/anchorage for us and that we could get there before dark. It was two hour ride, so if we hurried, we could make it in time. And there would be nothing scary between White Point and Musha. On an instant whim, we decided to follow Tiki Tour. We immediately got boat ready and left as quickly as we could. Since we’d never gotten the dinghy down, it went fast. We pulled up anchor at 1500.
After we left, we realized that we hadn’t taken a single photo of the White Point anchorage. We were waiting for better weather, and better weather never happened. From what we could see from the anchorage, it appeared to be all vacant land that looked the same as the rest of the Exumas.
We arrived at 1700. Visually speaking, it was a lovely anchorage, with several scenic islands around it. According to the internet, Musha Cay was a fancy private resort island owned by David Copperfield. Per the website “David Copperfield… uses Musha Cay as a test lab for his creative pursuits, then shares these unexpected adventures with you and your guests.”
January 10 – 16 — This week hasn’t been much fun. On Saturday, we left Warderick Wells and went to Compass Cay. It was super uncomfortable there. We went to the Bubble Bath in the afternoon.
Cette semaine était pas amusante. Samedi, nous sommes partis Warderick Wells et nous sommes allés à Compass Cay. C’était très inconfortable là-basu. L’après-midi nous sommes allés au Bubble Bath.
On Monday, January 19, the anchorage was rolly and uncomfortable when we woke up. The discomfort this morning wasn’t a surprise — last night, the forecast had said the wind would shift northwest to the northeast and the wind was currently in the middle of its shift. As a side note, since we’ve been here, the wind has been constantly shifting and has come from every direction. We’ve done a 360 around our anchor.
When Eric checked the forecast this morning, it had changed to rainy and windy from this direction all day. It started to drizzle shortly after the weather check. We immediately got Kosmos ready to go to sea. We belabored a bit about which anchorage to go to. The closest protected anchorage was just a bit south, just above the blue dot on the map below. Bogumilia had told us they were going there and Eric wanted to join them since it looked so protected. But three other kid boats were at the spot where the blue dot was, and Eric ultimately decided we should go to where there were more families. Even if it wasn’t as protected as the anchorage to the north of it, it wouldn’t be a bad anchorage in these winds. We believe the spot was called White Point.
We got the dinghy up, brought the flopper stopper in, and pulled up anchor at 0830. It took 45-minutes to get to the destination.The red dot was Blackpoint, the blue dot White Point. Christi was feeling good when she got up, but the burst of activity needed to get Kosmos deployed tuckered her out.
As soon as we all woke up, Eric said he’d had a bad night wanted to move to a less stressful location. It was high tide, and since the tide would be going down, we needed to move ASAP. We quickly got the dinghy up and the boat ready to go. The snubber had gotten twisted again, and Eric noticed that it was beginning to fray at the base. We pulled up anchor at 0730. We had a hard time getting the anchor properly seated in place on the bow. The anchor swivel was getting worse. Eric thinks it’s likely getting because there was sand in it. Lubricating it was still on the to-do list.
There was a solid one-knot of current in the narrow, shallow pass. Worried about how the autopilot would perform, Eric hand steered us through the narrow spots. Even though the tide was falling, he felt safe because we were following the same track out that we’d taken in, and he knew it was deep enough at that moment.
We went to Blackpoint, which took about 2.5 hours. It was rolly in the anchorage, so we put the out the port flopper stopper right away. The wind was forecast to calm down and change directions soon, and when it did, the anchorage would be calm. After we arrived, Eric took a long nap. At about 1415, we got the dinghy down and went to shore. As predicted, the waves in the anchorage had slowly but steadily calmed down, and by the time we headed to shore, conditions were pleasant.
