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Re: Exumas sailing report
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#250609
03/20/2021 09:35 AM
03/20/2021 09:35 AM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,863 Central Florida!
Carol_Hill
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Hi. Thanks for the report and the pictures. I have made this it's own thread, to alert people to it's actual content.
Carol Hill
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Re: Exumas sailing report
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03/21/2021 09:22 PM
03/21/2021 09:22 PM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 70 Nixa, Missouri
philthepilot
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Thank for taking the time to write your report and your pics. We are looking forward to the Bahamas. Its just my wife and I so it should be a lot of fun. We plan on doing or mid trip Covid test in Staniel Cay also. Thanks again for all the info.
Phil Nixa, Mo.
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Re: Exumas sailing report
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03/30/2021 12:44 PM
03/30/2021 12:44 PM
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,423 Bucks County, Pa.
toast
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I arrived Saturday and got tested on Wednesday at Staniel cay. Our charter co made the arrangements but I think it would be fairly easy to do yourself as well. This also worked for our re entry to US on Saturday. This is definetely not the BVI, we never had a meal on shore, although at Staniel Cay we could have and did have drinks at the Yacht Club there. Norman Cay had one small bar, did not go and nothing else . We did not go further south than this and I am not sure here was anywhere else between Nassau and Staniel that had amenities on it. Waderick Wells was the national park, No amenities but a whale skeleton on the beach and lots of cool hiking. Really not much bar and restaurant life, this is all about sailing and snorkeling and nature. I am sure if you google you may find some more islands with minor amenities. I know there were some other places that were doing testing but I could not tell you. One of our shipmates got tested at the marina when we got back as he was staying a few extra days and needed the test to get back in the states again.
Honestly the sailing was crazy, so many sandbars and shallows, I often had no idea why we would head miles out and come right back in again, but it was to nav around the shallows. We had a lot of head winds too, our captain told us to come during April thru November due to strong winds Dec to march, if we were to come back. So keep that in mind.
All that being said I will go back in a heartbeat, was very easy to get to and the covid requirements were not too bad, a little stressful to get the one so you could fly done in just the right amount of time, and uploaded and approved though... It is different from BVI heavy on sailing and light on beach bars. Bring your own alcohol and ice and you will be fine!!
Toast.......to Life; White Bay...heaven on earth. Diane
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Re: Exumas sailing report
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#251941
04/03/2021 11:57 PM
04/03/2021 11:57 PM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 3,228 Somewhere out there
kneafseym
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I love the Exumas, so much prettier than BVI. but the sailing is either upwind or downwind. Tide and current are different, no just casually swimming off the boat without a rope. Provisions are hard. i think the pigs are over rated and nasty. Little Farmers Cay is under rated.
Mike
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