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The Kosmos Travel Log is a place for Christi, Eric, and Keith to share and document our travel stories. See About.

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.

Christi, Eric, and Keith took Kosmos on an eight month trip to the Sea of Cortez from July 2022 to March 2023 (about 130 posts). Keith did updates in both English and French.

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.

Below are links to some good places to find specific types of information. In addition to boat travel stories, there are also posts on various other topics, including preparing for travels via boat, and stories about assorted land travels.

Note: Our blog posts are usually behind real-time, often by quite a bit.

Moving Back to Over Yonder Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Monday, March 16

The forecast had predicted that it would rain last night, and when we woke up, we were disappointed to find that it hadn’t. The boat was starting to get gross and needed a good wash down.

Christi was the first one up, and she started working on getting the boat ready to go to sea as soon as she got up. If the forecast was correct, the wind direction was going to shift soon and the anchorage would become rolly and uncomfortable. Last night, we hadn’t totally decided where we were going to go, but we’d been leaning towards going back to Over Yonder Cay.

When Eric got up, he checked the route and saw we’d have to go through yet another narrow, shallow channel to get there. While the tide was high right then, it was a falling tide, and Eric announced that we need to leave right NOW before it got too shallow. We got the dinghy up, brought the paravane in, and lifted the anchor.

Our friends on Tiki Tour had texted last night and said they were going to Pipe Cay today. We’d texted back this morning that we were going to Over Yonder Cay. Tiki left the same time we did and were right behind us, so we guessed they were probably going to join us at Over Yonder.

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Lying Low in Big Major/Staniel, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Saturday, March 14

This morning, Eric made French toast for breakfast. Since our attempts at buying groceries yesterday failed, we tried again today. We brought Fynn from Tiki Tour with us.

Before going to the store, we went to the Yacht Club for lunch. The kids played pool while we waited for our food.

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The Flying Pig and Yellow Store, Staniel Cay, The Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Friday, March 13, 2026

Eric and Christi woke up totally covered in big bites from the beach yesterday. Christi had been wearing shorts, and most of her bites were on her legs, with a few on her arms. Eric was wearing pants and socks, and he had a lot of bites on his arms and a few on the strip of skin between his pant and sock edges. Keith didn’t have many since he’d been in the water most of the time.

This morning, the bow of the boat changed directions several times as the winds shifted, and the anchorage got a bit rolly. Eric put out the port flopper stopper as he said the discomfort would likely get worse. It also rained a little bit, but not enough to give Kosmos a decent rinse down. She’s getting icky, so we hope it rains soon.

We went to shore after Christi and Keith finished school. We keep forgetting to mention the sunken boat. It has deteriorate badly from when we first reported on it in April 2025. The whole top part that was sticking out of the water is gone and it looks like the hull will come apart any day now.

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