Sailing Interlude

The Adventures of Kurt & Katie Braun while sailing the world aboard the yacht Interlude

May 2012

  • Lauding Lauderdale

    Lauding Lauderdale

    Here are some more photos showing Interlude’s new look. Fort Lauderdale has been a great place to do the refit. Thanks again to all those who have helped keep Interlude cruising in style: 84 Boat Works, Inc. A1 Marine All Points Boats, Inc. Apollo Lighting Aqua-holics Marine Services, Inc. Beard Marine Boat Owners Warehouse…

  • Chub Check-in

    Chub Check-in

    We arrived at Chub Cay Bahamas yesterday afternoon in the middle of another thunder shower. This time we welcomed the post passage boat wash although the lack of visibility made anchoring a bit more challenging. Customs and Immigration were processed with typical colonial bureacracy but efficiently enough. We have so far managed to avoid…

  • New Providence Projects

    New Providence Projects

    The last few days anchored at West Bay, New Providence, Bahamas (near Nassau) have been overcast with some spectacular thunder storms. We have been doing boat projects and studying charts & weather. There is a good weather net on SSB 4045 at 0630 run by Chris Parker. Conditions are somewhat unsettled making it hard…

  • Excellent Exhumas

    Excellent Exhumas

    Yesterday we motored about a hundred miles SE to ‘Big Major’s Spot’ one of the many Cays in the Exhumas group. Here we finally found some fellow cruisers and anchored in 11 feet of clear aquamarine water on white sand. We never got our tuna (only two barracuda) and so had some more of…