Mission Panamania 01_ Operation Miami to Nassau (Sailing Curiosity)

Today is the big day. I think. I'm going to double-check the weather. Am I ready? Part of me says, hell yeah. The other part of me says, no, just stay longer. It's safe here. It's safe. But nah, it's time. It's time to go. Let's go somewhere amazing. Well, I may have destroyed my big camera by leaving it out in that squall, but that has to be a good sign. Well, we're supposed to leave this morning, but. But, we're leaving this evening instead. We had a little route planning change. That's okay. We're still going. We're leaving right now. Like now, now. Now, now. Now, now. You ready, buddy? Yeah. How you feeling about it? Okay. Justin? Oh yeah, going sailing. We're ready. Ready. Ready last month. Let's do it. We are about 12 hours or so into our sail. We decided to not motor at all from Miami. So we did this giant tack, which took about twice as long. Maybe like 30% longer, but we didn't run the motors. Nope, we sailed all the way. Sort of a little beat slightly to to the stream, the Gulf Stream, but then when we turned to tack north, holy cow, we were doing like 10 knots last night. Were we really? Yeah. They were sleeping. We tacked right when they went to sleep and in three hours we covered twice as much. Well, whenever I got a chamber on my ship, we were at like eight and I was like, whoa. Yeah, we saw 10 knots. A little bit of traffic here and there. Bad, bad vloggers. Bad. We didn't shoot anything last night. So we're coming up on Katke Cut. Katke Cut. Gonna cross over on the Bahama Bank and make our way towards Andros, then Nassau. Maybe we'll stop in Nassau. But we might just turn and keep going. We're not here to play in the Bahamas. We're on a mission. A mission to get somewhere. Oh man, oh man, he's jumping. On the little rod. Uh oh. He is thrashing. Oh man, it's so pretty. You got him? A little licker. Fish tacos. Justin, hell yeah. Good job, man. Got dinner tonight. Our first Mahi ever. How's it going? Good. I'm just getting the fish fillet for fish tacos. So exciting. I'm so excited. We're finally getting them. It's a little hard to catch Mahi at the marina. Yeah, there was not a lot of fish at the marina. Do you like your sushi, Singa? Leo. Are you gonna go get a piece too? What? Nicely. Oh, I know camera loves you too. Singa, no more for you. Singa, no more. And Singa's helping. He's eating all the scraps. Alright guys. Fish tacos. The wait is over. And it's not even Tuesday. It is not even a Tuesday. It's taco every day. It's adventure day. Let's eat. Lunch break for dolphins. You still see them? Since we're out of two for lunch. Sailor shark. It feels good. How is it? Dale's going for something. Whether you need it or not, a sailor has to take a bath. That's what I've been told. Although it was followed by every three days. Do you find boat yoga hard? It's so hard. It is 1.49 a.m. An eventful night shift from a little bit of rain which is good. Rinse off some of that salt. Seas are fairly calm. Nothing exciting. 4.45 a.m. We're getting close to the tongue of the ocean to get out of these shallows and head towards Nassau. It should be well I'm not going to say it should be anything because the wind has gone from here to here to here and picked up from 5 to 20 and now back down to 6.8. It's just been kind of a crazy night of mostly motoring. I'd like to say motor sailing but the sail is pretty much barely doing anything. We just killed the engines and we are going a massive 2.8 knots. There is pretty clear water out there. Not a lot of wind and we're sailing. It's amazing how much that storm shifts our wind. It's a mess up our track. Been going around 5 knots. Had to dart around our cargo ship, mail boat. Had some storms that gave us a bunch of wind and sucked it all away. Had to fire up the motor there for a couple of minutes. Now we're back at 15 knots wind apparent. Going just over 5 knots and there's a big rain storm coming up. Lots of fun. Oh yeah, there was a funnel plug. I think I said that. Two more good pulls and one more storm ahead today. Whoa there killer. He's like whoa, whoa, whoa. Three pulls and it's burled in. It's been such a crazy day. The wind is just all day so I think it's pretty much died for now. We're almost to the West Bay which is a comfortable place to rest since we're not going to have any wind to sail. We'll pull in, anchor for the night and then move on in the morning. Sounds like a good plan? We can have a beer for once! I know! We can have a beer! A beer! Yay! What are you doing Cleo? I have absolutely no clue how you're supposed to tie this stupid flag on. There's no directions on their website. They talk about hooks or something. That didn't come with our flag. Quarantine. Beautifully done. Like a professional. Hello and it's flying. And yes, I know it's on the wrong side. But the other how you're busted. Not my fault. Not Nikki's fault either. Just happened.