Raconteur's third country

Raconteur will be ten years old sometime later this year; she is a 2001 Hunter 410, though for some reason she has a 2002 hull number. Her first owners kept her in Delray Beach, Florida and made regular trips to the Bahamas; we brought her home in the summer of 2005 and then made our first trip to the Bahamas in early 2009, and of course returned in early 2011.

After our two-part Bahamas cruise this year - Lauderdale to Bimini, the Berry Islands, New Providence, and the Exumas down to Emerald Bay in the first leg, and then Emerald Bay to Long Island, to Conception, to Rum and to Mayaguana in the far southeast in the second leg - we headed off yesterday very early to Providenciales (aka Provo) in the Turks and Caicos. Here is JP, taking down the Bahamas courtesy flag, and raising the quarantine flag, which we will fly until we check in to the TCI.



We made it here ahead of winds from the south that have settled in now, through sometime late Friday. We are at a small very cruiser-friendly marina called South Side, so will probably rent a jeep tomorrow and tour Provo, and may try to find a surveyor and see if we can get a quick haul-out at a nearby shipyard. We have to do it by late June or so, and so would have tried it in Grenada or Trinidad, but as JP is fond of saying, what's done is done.

Good internet access here, so more posts and pictures to come. Here are the most recent photos of our journey from Mayaguana to Provo.

https://picasaweb.google.com/raconteurcrew/SailingToTheTurksAndCaicos#