This trip was with my friends Jesse Broome and Carl Graves. It was on Jesse’s Island Packet 38, named Contented Turtle. Jesse keeps Contented Turtle at the marina/boat yard next to ours, and I met him there when Zephyr was getting worked on early this spring. It turns out that Jesse and I have a lot in common in addition to owning 38’ Island Packets. Carl has is Island Packet 380 (same model boat as Zephyr) a couple of slips down in the same marina as us. He’s been on all kinds of hiking, motorcycling, and flying adventures so sailing is his newest type of adventure.
On this trip we left from Norfolk, Virginia at 1pm on Sunday, November 5th traveled over 700 nautical miles before arriving in Marsh Harbor in the Abacos at 7am on Saturday, November 11th. From there we explored the Abacos for a couple of days before Carl and I had to fly back but Jesse is staying for the winter season in the Bahamas.
It was a great trip, definitely my furthest by quite a bit. I am looking forward to more passage making in the future.
There’s a more detailed writeup in a PDF at the end of the post after the photos.
SAILING ISLAND ZEPHYR 
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