Mo Bettah

Stars & Stripes - St Martin

Dinghy back to boat 

Tender

Overnight trip started out with light winds and being pushed North by the Gulf Stream. Shortly before dawn the wind picked up to 15-19 knots and 4’ swells. For a short while we were going North in the stream and showed 10+ knots SOG!
 Ended up heave-to waiting an hour for the Sun to come up before entering the port. 
 Met big ship as we entered!
 Lake Silvia was full so we went to the city mooring field. 

To Ft. Lauderdale 

Overnight trip started calm light winds and finished the next day with good wind!

Berry to Bimini

Exit Great Harbour 

8-11 knots of wind
0-4’ seas depending on location around the island. Mostly 3’
Awesome day of sailing! Must have had 30 power boats pass us in the first 5 miles on their way to a beach! Passed the cruise ship locations at the North end. 

Move to Great Harbour 

Rain 🌧️ moved in just as we were departing and made the winds light and variable. 
0-11 knot winds 
As we left the cut swells were 5’ on the beam so we did some zigzags to get angle to the swells. 
New anchorage turned out to be VERY rolley. 


Relocate to Soldier Cay

17-19 knot winds
Waves small close to shore
Founds plenty of turtles, bright orange starfish and some fish in the channel! Very fun trip😃

Dinghy Exploring!

Calm seas
16 knots wind
Driving around looking for turtles and also found stingrays, manta rays, and sharks! Spotted a giant sea turtle but wasn’t able to get a picture 😩

Excursion Trip

Flat and light winds. 
Used dinghy to scan depths and found West side way to better area. Then moved Mo Bettah. No rolling!!!

Move to Better Anchorage!

Started: 1’ seas/ 8-10 knot winds
Became: 3-5’ seas/ 15-18 knot winds
Running down wind all day
Came down n to anchor and all 3 boats there were on the move! 
2 Catamarans had just met up and were moving. Monohull was changing position. 

Got the hook to catch on the 3rd try. It’s a rolly anchorage‼️ But we plan to move tomorrow🤷🏻‍♂️

Stephen Hammonds