{"id":675,"date":"2015-03-22T01:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/?p=675"},"modified":"2019-07-12T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:29:41","slug":"across-the-bahama-banks-to-the-berry-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/2015\/03\/across-the-bahama-banks-to-the-berry-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Bahama Banks to the Berry Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

3\/20\/15
\nGreat Harbor Cay, Bahamas
\nPosition: 25 32.838N, 078 11.918W
\nPosted by Bill<\/em><\/p>\n

We left at dawn to cross the Great Bahama Banks to the Berry Islands. The banks have a depth that is pretty much 15 feet for 60 some miles east and west. You need good weather to have a comfortable passage and the next week is going to be perfect as weather windows go. There is a large high pressure system sitting in the Atlantic that is keeping winds below 10 knots. The wind was light and was off the port beam so we motor sailed as usual. 61 nautical miles later, we are getting close to the Northwest Passage where the Tongue of the Ocean meets the banks on the south side of the Berry Islands. We weren’t sure how the sea state would be at this juncture, so we aimed a little north where we would be out of the potential boat traffic, and in the lee of shoal areas which we figured would protect us from rough water at the junction of the Tongue and the banks. It was a long 12 hour day and we only went 62 miles. Pics:<\/p>\n

Tricia manning the main sail:
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\nSunset:
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\nIsland Bound underway on the banks:
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\nAlong the way, a fishing boat cruised by and offered some fresh lobster…5 tails for $25, and Kurt bought some.
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\nWe would have bought some too but they skipped us.<\/p>\n

Tricia made a great dinner and we crashed pretty early. Up early tomorrow to go to Great Harbor Cay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3\/20\/15 Great Harbor Cay, Bahamas Position: 25 32.838N, 078 11.918W Posted by Bill We left at dawn to cross the Great Bahama Banks to the Berry Islands. The banks have a depth that is pretty much 15 feet for 60 some miles east and west. You need good weather to have a comfortable passage and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahamas","category-berry-islands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ILlB-aT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}