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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.

Keith’s Perspective on Rudder Cay, Staniel Cay and Georgetown, The Bahamas/Le point de vue de Keith sur Rudder Cay, Staniel Cay et Georgetown, aux Bahamas

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Saturday, January 24 – Friday January 30 — This week has been fun. On Saturday, Dad went diving with Bogumila. Fynn came over to our boat, then Keira came over. All of us and Bogumila went to the beach. We got out our floating platform and played on that. 

Rudder Cay

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi, papa est allé plonger avec Bogumila. Fynn est venu sur notre bateau, puis Keira aussi. Nous tous et Bogumila sommes allés sur la plage. On a joué sur notre plateforme flottante. 

Rudder Cay
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Lying Low in Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Wednesday, February 18

It was another day of puttering around the boat. Before doing school, Eric and Keith changed the generator oil and cleaned the sea strainer for the generator. Eric also ran the wing engine. Then Keith and Christi did school. In the afternoon, Keith went tubing with Clean Cup while Eric and Christi went to shore. There were a couple of locals there who were making repairs to the hut, but they left shortly after the group arrived.

When they were done tubing, they joined everyone onshore. Here was another shot of Kosmos with both flopper stoppers out. You can see why we called them “the force field.” No one wanted to anchor too close to us when we had them out!

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Hiking to a Viewpoint in Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Sunrise on Tuesday, February 17

Our friends on Tiki Tour were at an anchorage a couple miles away from us. This morning, they sent a text saying that they were coming over to visit in their dinghy. Since we’d last seen them, they’d picked up another set of guests, who were a family that used to cruise on a boat called Betsy. Betsy came, too. Sadly, their timing was terrible because all of the other families in the anchorage had gone to town today to meet the supply ship. The other families would have been thrilled to see Tiki and Betsy again.

Tiki arrived armed with paint because they’d heard through the grapevine that their sign had faded. The first thing they did was refresh their sign.

Then they loaned us their paint and Eric painted a Kosmos sign.

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Hanging Out at Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Sunday, February 15 — We puttered around the boat in the morning and early afternoon. Eric and Keith put out both flopper stoppers. There was only mild motion, so one would have been enough for today, but the forecast said that on Monday, the wind would change directions to be from the south. We knew that on Monday, we’d need the second flopper stopper, so Eric was proactive.

We had an early dinner and headed over to the beach at about 1630. One couple was already there and the rest of the boats arrived shortly after. Keith played with the kids while Eric and Christi chatted with the adults. It was a really nice visit. We had been planning to clean the bottom here, but were warned that there were aggressive bull sharks in this anchorage. The bottom can certainly wait! Here was the sunset.

And a shot of the beach looking the other direction

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Transit to Hog Cay, The Ragged Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Friday, February 13

We again got up early, got Kosmos ready to go, and lifted anchor at about 0610. This was another one of those passages where we couldn’t make a direct line because the majority of the area was too shallow, and the only access was through the narrow Comer Channel (the yellow line on the map below was the route we took from Georgetown to Flamingo Cay. The channel was cut through the light area around the southwest side of Great Exuma Island).

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