Moving to White Point, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

Posted on May 19, 2026 by Eric

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.

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Moving Back to Blackpoint, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

Posted on May 18, 2026 by Eric

Sunrise on Friday, January 16

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.

We docked at the public dinghy dock. In addition to a couple of sharks, we also saw a turtle. We had lunch at the Lorraine’s by the road. While Keith was pretty much over his cold, he wasn’t feeling particularly energetic. He also had a mild residual cough.

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Riding Out a Storm in Southern Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

Posted on May 17, 2026 by Eric

Dawn on Wednesday, January 14

Keith had a fever of 101 when he woke up, so we skipped school and let him rest. We had a quiet day onboard. By the late afternoon, his fever was gone and he was feeling better. In the evening, we went over to Mellow Puff for a short visit. They had a large cockpit area, and we made sure to sit far enough away from them, and down wind of them, to ensure that we didn’t expose them to any germs. It was a nice visit. This was Mellow Puff at dusk.

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Moving to the South Side of Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

Posted on May 15, 2026 by Eric

Dawn on Tuesday, January 13

Normally, in an anchorage, boats faced the wind and took any wind waves on the nose. Yesterday morning, the wind was hitting Kosmos on her port side instead of on the bow, which meant the current was so strong that it was overriding the wind in determining which direction Kosmos faced. Having the wind hitting us on the port made the motion onboard different from what was normal in an anchorage — it wasn’t a bad motion, it was just not a typical motion, so we felt a bit off kilter.

In the morning, we did school and chores. At about 1300, we moved to the south end of the island, to an anchorage that would be more protected in the coming winds. The ride took about 30 minutes and we had to go through two scary passes that were both narrow and shallow.