600 miles sailing to Inagua. And a surprise extra night.

The episode is all about the sailing passage. No beaches or boat work... just come along on a 3 (spoiler alert, actually 4) night passage from Saint Martin to the Bahamas. This is the first part of a 1200+ mile passage to get Little Bird up to Florida and hauled-out for hurricane season. Our Balance 526 Catamaran, Little Bird, did easy 200 miles days as we took it easy sailing up the Caribbean to Great Inagua Island.

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We're Tif and Frank. In a significant act of vanity, we're making YouTube video of our sailing exploits. In 2021, we sailed our Balance 526 Catamaran from Cape Saint Francis, South Africa to the island of Grenada in the Caribbean on a 30 day passage. Since then, we've been sailing up the islands exploring beautiful anchorages and meeting great people. Over the next few years, we'll be sailing through the Bahamas, San Blas, Panama, and across the Pacific. With any luck, eventually we'll sail around the world.

We're from Santa Cruz, California and grew up in and around the water. This is our third catamaran (we also had a Seawind 1000 and Catana 431) and eight boat (fishing boats, monohulls... boats tend to take over sometime!). We love fishing, stand-up paddle boarding, surfing and Tif has a yoga and workout addiction. It has been fun to learn to wingfoil, perfect our snorkeling skills, and watch others kitesurf (maybe someday we'll give it a try).

Timestamps if you'd like to jump around:
00:20 Anchor Up, depart St Martin
00:44 Spinnaker set
01:05 In this episode...
01:23 90 miles to St Thomas
02:27 We thought it was 640 miles
03:17 First of 10 watches done!
03:47 "Drama" trying to do the pre-checkin
04:39 Already the 4th watch; top of Puerto Rico
05:35 The girls take over
06:42 Frank's favorite: the night watch
08:20 Day 3: Tif's melon's
10:19 The Little Mermaid live
11:52 "Last" evening
12:50 Supermoon
14:15 Land ho!
15:02 Quick dip in Matthew Town
15:32 Matthew Town was a bit Covid Closed... so bonus sailing night!
16:06 Call of the Sea... another 24 hours to Long Island
16:45 Best of plans... our downwind sail turned upwind
17:45 Clarence Town, Long Island arrival

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