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Ep 268 | Where is our favourite cruising area?
25 de outubro de 2025 · 20 min · 18K visualizações · Exuma Island Group
Sailboat glides over turquoise water with crew at helm
O que este vídeo aborda
Paul and Sheryl Shard cruise the Exuma Island Group in the Bahamas aboard their variable-draft Hank Sail Orion 49, sailing north from Georgetown with guests Scott, Lisa, and their daughter Sienna.▶ 1:02 The Exuma Banks require raising the 11-foot keel to navigate water as shallow as seven feet; with the keel up, the boat records roughly five to six degrees of leeway in 18–22 knots of easterly trade wind.▶ 5:44 They enter the banks at Cave Cay Cut — flagged as dangerous when a large incoming swell meets an outgoing current — then cover seven to eight miles to Staniel Cay, picking up a mooring ball because tidal currents make anchoring difficult there.▶ 2:37 Thunderball Cave, filmed in the 1960s James Bond movie, is best visited at slack tide to avoid strong currents in the grotto.▶ 7:18 Compass Cay requires entering on a rising tide at least an hour before high water, in daylight, via a narrow marked-and-dredged channel; boats drawing more than six feet should call ahead for piloting advice.▶ 8:28 The $10-per-person landing fee funds the privately owned marina, where nurse sharks tamed by owner Tucker Roll can be approached in the water.▶ 9:21 Wardrick Wells Cay, inside the 176-square-mile Exuma Cays Land and Sea National Park, offers hiking trails and a sperm-whale skeleton on the beach.▶ 12:22 At Shroud Cay, they anchor in shallow water using a Lumar V4 windlass and 20 meters of chain with a snubber, then dinghy the mangrove creeks at high tide.▶ 14:58 April and May bring reliable easterly trades after winter cold fronts taper off in March.▶ 4:03
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