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We began the day at two AM, with a light rain beating on the canopy of Destiny II anchored off Long Cay/ Fortune Island. We had moved to this island to seek shelter from squalls reported to be heading eastward…
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On Arriving at the Northwest Point of Great Inagua on Monday, Dec 7, we had enough time to explore Man of War Bay from the water. The wind was unsuitable for an anchorage here, but we observed the entry to…
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“Sorry for late contact…severe problems with communications.But all well” "It’s extraordinary," says Josiah Marvel, "to think that this is what Columbus would have seen." We’re standing at the bow of Destiny II, peering at the sandy southern shoreline of Mayaguana…
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Following Columbus Expedition 2015 departs Thursday, 3 December and will focus primarily on an acheological investigation of a potential site of Lucayan settlement identified during Expedition 2014 and to complete the last leg of his route to Ragged Island which wasn’t possible…
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Sunday, 16th November   We departed Calabash Bay on Long Island at 10:30 this morning with 20 knots of wind out of the east. As we head to our final anchorage at George Town, Great Exuma, we attach our last…
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Saturday, 15th November Up at 6 following wake-up raindrops striking Destiny. Topped up our fuel tanks at the brightly painted Flying Fish Marina facing the town and took a moment to visit Father Jerome’s curious church overlooking the settlement just…
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Departed Landrail Point, Crooked Island this morning at 10:30 after purchasing fuel and a loaf of Miss Willie’s excellent bread. Motor-sailed forty miles over a calm sea with faint wind directly to Clarence Town Harbour where we anchored near sundown….
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Thirsday november 13th – Day Twelve Up at 6 AM for breakfast and departure from Castle Island with a stubbornly persisting north wind dropping to a flat calm. Without even thinking of hoisting a sail we motored effortlessly over a…
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Up at 6 AM, disappointed to find the wind blowing from the northwest contrary to forecasts and opposed to where we wished to go. Had we time, this northwest wind would have been good for tracing Columbus’s V-shaped deployment of…
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Hogsty Reef is an atoll open to the west rather like a horseshoe heading east. Its northwest and southwest ends are punctuated with sand cays each bearing a low cover of green vegetation. The larger northwest cay supports low bushes…
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