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Lessons | p. viii |
Nautical Mumbo-Jumbo | p. xii |
Preface | p. xiii |
Contemplating the Plunge | |
Whose Idea was This Anyway? | p. 3 |
Monohulls vs. Catamarans | p. 6 |
Monohulls | |
Catamarans | |
Safety for Catamarans and Monohulls | |
Still Not Sure? | |
Let's Buy a Boat | p. 13 |
Research Makes Perfect | |
Who's Paying? | |
The Process | |
So What Happened Next? | |
The Best-Laid Plans | p. 26 |
Ahoy, Matey! | p. 29 |
What's in a Name? | |
Thanks... I Think | |
Final Preparations | |
Casting Off | |
And We're Off-Not | p. 35 |
Need Fuel? | |
So Thirsty | |
Energize Me | |
Bahamas Here We Come! | p. 39 |
Tacking | |
Back on Track | |
Exploring the Islands | |
Welcome to the Bahamas! | p. 45 |
Great Sale Cay | |
Allans-Pensacola Cay | |
Green Turtle Cay | |
What Do You Mean You're Leaving Us? | |
Who's in Charge Here? | |
A Quick Note About Charts and Navigation | |
Becoming Green Turtle (Abacos) Bahamas Residents | p. 53 |
Who Anchored This Thing? | |
If One Anchor is Good, Two is Better, Right? | |
Making Friends | |
Brrrr on Green Turtle | |
Not Again! | |
Thankful on Thanksgiving | |
The Whale (Cue the Suspense Music) | |
After the Whale | |
What Did We Learn Here? | |
Breaking Free! | p. 69 |
Ping-Ponging Around the Rest of the Abacos | |
Becoming One with the Abacos | |
You Can't Go Home Again | p. 77 |
Back to the Abacos: Practicing and Fixing, Fixing and Practicing | p. 79 |
Sailors in Training | |
Fixing Things in Exotic Locations | |
I See Another Pep Talk Coming | |
Final Days in the Abacos | |
Good-Bye, Abacos, Hello, Exumas (in the Central Bahamas) | p. 88 |
Royal Island | |
Allen's Cay | |
Hawksbill Cay | |
Warderick Wells Cay | |
Compass Cay | |
Big Majors Spot and Staniel Cay | |
Black Point Settlement, Great Guana Cay (Yes, Another One) | |
A Milestone is Reached-George Town (Bahamas) | p. 97 |
Long Island | |
George Town-Part II | |
Guess It's Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around and Get Out of Here | |
Who You Calling Chicken? Bahamas, Stage Left | p. 106 |
What Broke? | |
Turks and Caicos-Definite Possibilities | p. 109 |
East Caicos | |
Grand Turk | |
Big Sand Cay | |
What Broke? | |
The Dominican Republic-Island A+, Anchorage F- | p. 114 |
Life on Luperon and Beyond | |
Road Trip! | |
Who Invited Hurricane Dean? | |
Break Out the Tissues | |
Hurricane Season? What Hurricane Season? We're Leaving | |
What Broke? | |
Our Longest Sail Ever-Adios, Dominican Republic! | p. 127 |
Hola, Puerto Rico! The United States on Island Time | p. 131 |
A Tour of the Southern Coast- First Up, CaboRojo | |
La Parguera | |
Coffin Island | |
Salinas | |
Puerto Patillas | |
Cayo Santiago | |
Isla Palominos | |
What Broke? | |
Let's Talk Anchor Rode | |
If We Can't Be Virgins, Then Let's Go to Them (the Islands, That Is) | p. 138 |
Spanish Virgin Islands | |
U.S. Virgin Islands | |
British Virgin Islands | |
Gobble Gobble on Tortola | |
Final Moments with the Virgins | |
What Broken? | |
Bonjour! Welcome to St. Martin (and a Quickie to St Barths and Anguilla) | p. 151 |
St. Martin: The Prequel | |
St. Martin: Redo | |
Work, Work, Work | |
Play, Play, Play | |
Back to Work | |
What Broke? | |
Island Hopping to Saba, Statia, and St. Kitts and Nevis (Islands That Brush the Clouds) | p. 160 |
Saba | |
What Broke? | |
Statia (St. Eustatius) | |
What Broke? | |
St Kitts (St. Christopher) | |
Nevis-The First Time | |
Back to St. Kitts | |
What Broke? | |
Nevis as a Launching Pad to Antigua | |
What Broke? | |
A Stowaway on Antigua | p. 168 |
What Broke? | |
Graffiti and Guadeloupe | p. 174 |
What Broke? | |
Oh When Des Saintes | p. 177 |
What Broke? | |
Lush-Ous Dominica | p. 179 |
What Broke? | |
Martinique Gets a Quickie | p. 183 |
What Broke? | |
Was That St. Lucia? | p. 186 |
What Broke? | |
Reverse Course-Back to Antigua! | p. 187 |
Dominica | |
Guadeloupe | |
Antigua | |
What Broke? | |
And Back Down Again on the Jacumba Express | p. 190 |
What Broke? | |
Coo-Coo for Carriacou | p. 192 |
From Miami to Grenada: Who'd Have Believed It? | p. 194 |
Island Fun | |
Hauling Out and DIY | |
What Broke? | |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Otherwise Known as Paradise | p. 198 |
Carriacou | |
Sandy Island | |
Back to Carriacou | |
Union Island | |
Tobago Cays | |
Canouan | |
Bequia | |
Mustique | |
St. Vincent | |
Bequia (Again) | |
Tobago Cays (Again) | |
Union Island (Again) | |
Mayreau | |
St. Vincent (Again) | |
What Broke? | |
Solo Sailor on Grenada | p. 208 |
And He's Gone | |
A Trinidad Quickie | |
Backto Grenada | |
Solo Sailing | |
He's Back | |
Waiting Out Hurricane Season | |
A Brief Respite | |
It's Time | |
What Broke? | |
The Final Run | p. 220 |
The Grenadines to St. Lucia | |
Dominica | |
Les Saintes to Guadeloupe | |
Montserrat | |
Nevis and St. Barths | |
What Broke? | |
Hurry Up and Wait | p. 225 |
Is This It? | p. 227 |
Onshore | |
A Visitor! | |
Work, Work, Work | |
Maybe, but Let's Go to Barbuda for a Look-see | p. 231 |
What Broke? | |
It was a Bad Sail; It was a Good Sail | p. 233 |
Spinnaker R.I.P. | |
Landlubbers Again | |
You're Hired, We're Home (Sort of) | p. 239 |
Back On Board | |
What Broke? | |
Sell, Sell, Sell! | p. 242 |
Who's at the Helm? | |
Meet Ana and Bill | |
Happy Feet | |
Sold... Based on Survey | p. 248 |
Another Survey Story | |
D is for Deflated, Dispirited, Depressed | p. 252 |
Change That to Delighted, Delirious, Disembarking! | p. 253 |
Our Last Tropical Storm! | |
Our Last Shark Sighting! | |
Our Last Boat Bottom Scrubbing! | |
Our Last Deck Scrubbing! | |
Our Last Intruder! | |
Our Last Peeping Toms! | |
Our Last Boat Payment! | |
Our Last Night of Lasts | |
Where are We Now? | p. 257 |
Now It's Your Turn | |
Time to Take the Plunge | p. 261 |
Observations and Lists | p. 263 |
General Thoughts | |
Tips | |
The End | |
Appendix: How We Chose Our Island | p. 279 |
Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
Index | p. 287 |
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