The Sailing Adventures of Island Eclipse

                                                                       Stopping to smell the rose! It's a long sail from Toronto, to Georgetown Bahamas.  It has its ups and its downs, moments of serenity, and times when sheer hell breaks loose.  But today, the 4th day of our journey home, its just a beautiful day to sail and take it all in.  The winds are a steady 17-20 knots, the seas are relatively flat and the boat's doing 6.5 knots, with only a gentle heel.     It's a relatively quiet day out on the water, we're flying along at 7+ knots, and have managed to pass all the boats we've seen.  They were all headed the opposite direction, but that doesn't matter.  We totally walked away from Mark and Min-ju on Blue Bird the other day. Reefing early...

    After a day of rest and recovery we slowly began exploring our new destination.   We didn't go far on our first venture, deciding to just dinghy ashore, and hang out at Chat and Chill beach, playing volley ball and trading war stories about the journey down with like-minded cruisers from around the world.    Over the course of the day we  managed to get the low-down on various points of interest, like where to get rid of garbage, where to get water, grocery shopping, cliff jumping, and snorkelling,  We learned about the morning NET, and other various activities happening in and around Georgetown. The morning NET, on channel 72, was an open broadcast every morning at 8:00am to the fleet of over 450 boats in Elizabeth Harbour.  The broadcast always began with the weather of the day, then boats coming and going, events, buy and sell, and concluded with help wanted.and other various activities happening in and around Georgetown.   It was...