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From Rough Anchorages to Boat City: Exploring Georgetown Bahamas | Ep 71 #svaguaazul #boatlife #boat
May 30, 2025
Sailing through the Exumas in the Bahamas is an unforgettable adventure filled with stunning seascapes, vibrant boating communities, and the real challenges of life aboard a sailboat. In this detailed draft, we trace the journey from Rat Cay, known as one of the rockiest and rolliest anchorages, to the lively and bustling boating town of Georgetown on Great Exuma Island. This post will highlight the navigation, provisioning, and everyday boat life moments that make sailing in the Bahamas a unique experience.
Chapters:
0:00 Leaving Rat Cay – Rolliest anchorage experience
5:10 Navigating the narrow Racket Cut against the current
9:25 Reefing sails for comfortable Atlantic sailing
14:00 Arrival in Georgetown – Exploring the boat city
22:45 Grocery shopping and local prices
28:30 Life aboard – Managing humidity and AC
33:00 Exploring Georgetown’s dinghy dock and beaches
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Sailing from Racket Cut to Georgetown – A Bahama Adventure
Sailing through the Exumas in the Bahamas offers breathtaking scenery, lively towns, and real boat-life challenges. Recently, we left the rolliest anchor at Rat Cay behind to sail to bustling Georgetown, and here’s a recount of that journey full of waves, winds, provisioning, and community.
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0:00
okay guys we are leaving Rat K next to
0:03
uh Pigeon K and my wife said that had to
0:06
be the rolliest anchor she's ever been
0:08
at
0:10
oh for a day my gosh it It went like
0:15
this all day all night all morning it
0:19
had some lows but yeah it was it was
0:22
still pretty rocky so we are heading to
0:24
Georgetown we have about a 5 hour day
0:27
hopefully four depending on wind and
0:29
everything but I'm hoping it's not too
0:31
swilly out there why are you still going
0:34
to cuz I have to go to the cut babe i'm
0:36
not I got to get a little further over
0:40
but uh yeah let me uh concentrate on
0:42
what I'm doing get through these cuts
0:43
and then we'll come back to you so if
0:45
you can see here we're going through a
0:46
nice deep
0:48
cut and
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uh you can see the edges right over
0:53
there so we got edges on both sides
0:55
about the same distance and uh yeah it's
0:59
it's nice and smooth in here i I we are
1:02
going against the current so it's
1:03
cutting us down about a knot of speed
1:06
but uh yeah it's only a shortcut we're
1:09
only going to be in here for like a
1:11
nautical mile and then we're out on the
1:14
uh Atlantic Ocean and I do have my uh
1:18
sail bag for my main cell unzipped in
1:20
case we want to uh release that if it's
1:23
a little swelly and we can get some good
1:25
wind angle and maybe sail some of the
1:27
way there and smooth out the ride that
1:30
would be
1:31
ideal what do you think of that babe
1:37
but look at that view behind my babe
1:39
right there oh my gosh these are these
1:42
are the waters that people come for
1:47
but probably not the expensive prices
1:49
that go along with these waters but
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[Music]
1:55
yeah okay guys so here's racket cut in
1:59
the Exumas and we are hitting this about
2:01
slack tide so it's looking pretty smooth
2:05
we're losing a little bit of speed
2:08
but actually no we're not we're doing
2:11
pretty good on speed
2:13
but I'm going to get back to navigating
2:16
and uh get us out of this okay we made
2:20
it through racket cut and the Exumas and
2:23
uh it's a little swilly out here but
2:27
we're going to be uh turning more into
2:28
it i'm hoping that
2:31
uh it gets a little bit more comfortable
2:34
i'm going to get a little further out
2:35
before I turn cuz want to be a little
2:37
further away from land you know don't
2:40
want to rock the boat on anything rocky
2:43
down there
2:46
okay my wife says it feels a little bit
2:48
better out here but she says you never
2:50
underestimate the weather
2:54
do a turn like that yeah but I'm not
2:57
seeing any white caps out here or
2:58
anything maybe a few little ones but
3:00
nothing like yesterday so I'm hoping for
3:04
a more pleasant ride
3:11
as you can see out there I don't know if
3:12
you can see them or not but I can see
3:15
them with protected
3:16
eye few boats yeah there you go now you
3:20
can see them yeah sailboats in the
3:23
back so I'm guessing today was a better
3:27
weather window and I probably should
3:29
have did the entire run to Georgetown
3:31
today but we did stop at a beautiful
3:34
location the rat cake was beautiful but
3:37
the sleep at night
3:40
sucked
3:43
sucked okay we got uh two reefs on our
3:46
main cell it's up and we're settling at
3:50
about
3:51
25° sometimes a little worse but this
3:54
really helps smooth out the ride
3:57
so if that's all it does that is awesome
4:01
because this is a lot more comfortable
4:03
out here it's just uh keeping us from
4:06
wobbling so
4:08
much what do you think of that
4:11
babe are you messing the wobble
4:20
yeah we still got the the hobby horse
4:23
but it's it's a light hobby horse not
4:26
near what yesterday
4:28
was i'm guessing we're pretty close to
4:30
Seab Bear over here
4:33
i called them we're doing about the same
4:35
speed i'll probably uh back off the
4:38
throttle a bit here in a minute get
4:40
behind
4:41
them and uh it's uh I like the course
4:46
we're
4:47
on whoa we're falling over quite a busy
4:50
day out here a lot of boats coming
4:54
through and I'm falling
4:57
back okay guys there's a lot of boats
5:00
going on today i'm guessing they're
5:01
trying to take advantage of this little
5:03
window we have to get uh either north or
5:06
south but we're going in Georgetown so
5:09
we're heading
5:10
south okay guys the sail out here is
5:13
really it really smoothed up as we got
5:15
towards the end of this sail uh the only
5:18
reason it's a little rougher now is I
5:19
had to break down the head sail which
5:21
allows us to do a little back and forth
5:22
a little bit more but baby's right here
5:26
and what did you think of the sail babe
5:29
a lot better a lot better than expected
5:31
yeah a lot better than yesterday
5:35
frizzy out here though now my baby's
5:37
looking for a good night's sleep tonight
5:39
i'm hoping this anchorage is This should
5:41
be a lot better anchorage than last
5:42
night
5:48
okay we're about an hour away from
5:51
Georgetown 47 minutes that is my babe
5:54
she's over there uh enjoying
5:57
her friends and we're getting a rain
5:59
start
6:02
we're washing off all this sand and
6:04
re-washing my wife's aprons right there
6:08
my wife says it looks like a city of
6:11
boats out here
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[Music]
6:15
we were been so remote for a while that
6:17
all of a sudden it's like like this is
6:20
where everybody comes or something yeah
6:22
there is a lot of boats out here though
6:24
all the way out there all the way back
6:27
there
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just tons of boats in here
6:34
staging to
6:38
basically exit
6:41
so we are in Georgetown and uh yeah it
6:44
was a bit of a sale but uh we're on
6:48
actually on the other side of where
6:49
Georgetown is so we're gonna have to you
6:52
know do a little dingy ride over to the
6:54
other side and go into the bridge you
6:55
see in all the videos where people go
6:57
under that bridge well that's where this
6:58
is where they is and uh hopefully we can
7:02
get uh some good
7:04
provisions you know for at least about a
7:07
month and get on out of here and about a
7:13
little bit we're going to stay here a
7:14
bit so
7:16
chillax and hang out and see things it's
7:18
like a little boat city yeah it is a lot
7:22
of boats here but it's uh passing
7:26
straight time so cheers guys and y'all
7:29
take care everybody waves you always got
7:32
to wave
7:35
okay guys we are going to Georgetown
7:38
yep
7:40
this is one of the biggest towns we've
7:41
ever been in and I think in the
7:44
Exumasumas this is one of the biggest
7:46
towns marsh was was all right but I
7:49
think this is bigger oh yeah i think
7:51
this is bigger than Marsh but uh yeah
7:54
this is the great Exuma Island and
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uh yeah this is our last stop before we
8:02
start uh hopping to Long Island we're
8:06
going to we're going to hang out here a
8:08
bit i'm kind of glad we came in
8:09
yesterday
8:12
they're bouncing around oh yeah that
8:13
must have been a rough ride oh I imagine
8:15
oh yeah down there yeah it was it was
8:18
probably like the ride we had the day
8:20
before coming here or coming going to uh
8:24
rat day but yeah we're going to show you
8:26
the little town of Georgetown and uh get
8:29
us some veggies and uh figure out how to
8:31
get mail here yeah mail
8:36
this when you're going there you go
8:38
towards the big
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antenna
8:45
yeah long video out here
8:55
yeah it's 1.6 knots
8:58
miles we're almost
9:02
there so yeah there's the bridge
9:04
everybody goes under it's next to the uh
9:08
blue and pink
9:10
house and
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uh so
9:17
weird
9:28
actually video
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oh
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yeah
9:34
wa
9:36
waves over
9:41
there yeah but yeah a lot of boat
9:44
traffic coming through
9:48
here yeah that's the the bridge it
9:52
always looks
9:53
lower on
9:56
video we're almost We're almost at high
9:59
tide right
10:01
now yeah so we're at high tide that is a
10:06
lot higher than what I thought it was
10:11
yep there's a gas station right up here
10:14
we're going through here this uh this
10:16
cut
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is
10:19
uh up there we're just doing a dinghy
10:22
versus our
10:25
[Music]
10:29
boat yeehaw
10:35
[Music]
10:43
but yeah there's the digging
10:46
dock okay guys we're on board there's
10:49
the trash truck there's the
10:52
dock there's my babe getting some water
10:58
when I put it in there too many
11:02
but got to explore see what the grocery
11:05
stores look like here and things like
11:07
that and uh yeah she found it she's good
11:11
she got it we have
11:14
Awa okay just across from the gas grass
11:17
st gas station and the grocery store
11:20
there's a DHL here where you can I guess
11:22
uh ship mail you just uh they have
11:24
instructions in there you just take a
11:26
picture of it
11:28
do we know how to Yeah I've got the I
11:31
got the picture of the instructions okay
11:33
so
11:35
our boys are going to need instructions
11:38
yes pretty good instructions but
11:40
surprisingly there's no zip codes in
11:44
Bahamas so that was weird they say if
11:47
they require a zip code it's just all
11:48
zeros yeah well don't you think they
11:52
would know
11:54
a postal service oh I think so oh yeah
11:56
no they wouldn't know
12:00
okay guys we had a great time in
12:02
Georgetown there's my babe right there
12:07
so was uh
12:11
got a little groceries got eggs are
12:13
pretty cheap oh look at these wings come
12:16
down here
12:18
oh wow oh what has our boat been doing
12:21
out here oh wow
12:25
yay now we have to fight this this is
12:28
what's going on out here oh no i got to
12:31
put the camera up because I'm getting
12:33
salt water all over it
12:38
okay guys so
12:41
we just uh went to the uh store went got
12:45
groceries and then we had the bucket
12:48
beers right there at the dingy dock if
12:51
you go in Georgetown at the dingy dock
12:54
it's the first bar free Wi-Fi to your
12:57
right uh get the bucket beers cuz you'll
13:00
save a lot of money but uh we didn't eat
13:04
the $25
13:06
hamburgers and No instead I bought
13:09
groceries yes so we were good we were
13:11
good we spent how much on groceries um I
13:15
spent about
13:17
$65 but okay this Bahama okay but she I
13:22
got four things of freaking eggs eggs
13:25
were $3.99
13:29
uh
13:30
$4 12 pack so last time we saw that was
13:33
in Marsh yeah and they were still higher
13:35
there and I don't know how how much
13:38
these were i don't know it was in It was
13:41
$4.99 a pound i have no money i have no
13:44
idea but she got some peanuts
13:47
jalapenos actually these are sranos oh
13:50
that's Oh that's right all the jalapenos
13:51
looked like they were rotten so I I
13:53
ain't getting jalapenos that's some
13:56
flour
13:57
tortillas and lettuce lettuce
14:02
um some honey roasted peanuts that were
14:05
these were like $4 and something
14:08
actually that's That's pretty cheap and
14:10
she got tomatoes so two tomatoes yep and
14:14
then the eggs
14:16
and four things of eggs and then I swear
14:19
on some gummy worms these were
14:22
350 a pack oh yeah not bad that's
14:26
$7 so and let me
14:29
see yeah these are all wet this
14:31
everything is wet man oh yeah the dingy
14:33
rod here you saw coming here it was It
14:35
was Yeah it was kind of So we spent $15
14:38
on
14:40
12 12 48 eggs oh that is good that's not
14:44
bad no that's good that's not bad so
14:46
yeah yep and uh then we spent 33 35 $40
14:52
on beers at the bar so
14:55
no it was 35 plus tip no that was
14:58
including Oh including tip 35 so $35
15:01
yeah that's not bad
15:04
but now uh Oh I
15:08
spent
15:10
really
15:12
$230
15:13
on this these tomatoes wait let me let
15:18
me see the green peppers let me see um
15:21
where bell peppers were $8
15:27
that's where that's where the they were
15:28
wrong on their price see you got to wash
15:30
this it was $4.99 and I said $4.99 a
15:33
pound 5.49 a pound mhm no it wasn't but
15:38
they're really big and I can probably
15:39
get about four meals out of this so you
15:42
know good to go whatever but that's a
15:46
shopping experience in Georgetown and uh
15:49
yeah you can pick up there's like three
15:52
liquor stores there 49 for this i love
15:55
this there's you know a place you can
15:57
get your mail there's a bar with Wi-Fi
16:01
and there's some great company at the
16:03
bar so yeah it's it's not a bad
16:07
stop but we're going to get off here and
16:10
uh call it a night oh and there's a vax
16:14
tax oh yeah the vax tax to that tax yeah
16:18
value ad tax they tax food here guys so
16:21
just be aware of that
16:25
so guys we went the other way from the
16:27
Danny Dock so we took a right and we're
16:30
in this little part of the town it's
16:32
pretty nice over here supposed to be a
16:34
grocery store down here but uh
16:39
yeah yeah this is
16:41
uh the nicest part of Bahamas I've seen
16:44
so
16:45
far as far as town wise not beach and
16:49
sandwise okay we're looking for
16:52
Shopright well there he is it's a good
16:55
walk when you take a right
17:01
so your Scots toilet paper is 21
17:04
here and then let's look at big old cans
17:09
of beans there
17:16
$13 black eyed peas
17:20
13 that's actually not a bad price for
17:23
Yeah
17:24
that's really bad do they have parchment
17:26
paper you're almost out of that what the
17:29
What would I do with it oh wow that's a
17:32
lot of tuna
17:36
no we got we got um one too we got a
17:39
pretty good uh
17:42
179 and uh I'm carrying one bag of meat
17:47
oh yeah and uh she got
17:49
snacks but yeah store's not bad priced
17:53
oh and we found the uh the the blocks of
17:56
freshly cut cheese here oh yeah they
17:59
didn't have them at the store so yeah
18:02
that's good but uh Okay can we walk
18:06
faster
18:07
i'm walking as fast as if I if I slow
18:10
down
18:11
this gets heavier
18:13
yeah but Georgetown has that nice little
18:16
community feel right now we're walking
18:18
through the park and this little back
18:20
swell cork pretty well
18:23
maintained looks pretty
18:25
good so gota watch out for glass though
18:28
yeah you do oh wow yeah don't don't sit
18:32
there
18:34
yeah that go right through a
18:37
flip-flop but yeah we're going to head
18:39
back to the boat got to get the pump and
18:42
uh we got to put up everything and prep
18:44
put up everything but uh take the puppy
18:48
in it's a little
18:50
walk and we're not bringing the wagon
18:53
she wants to break up these in smaller
18:55
cuz it's just overwhelming
18:58
yes and plus we're we're here for a
19:00
little bit it's nice to get off the boat
19:03
so stretch your legs i've got what I
19:06
needed at this store and then the other
19:08
store is over there the Exuma is
19:12
something um so yeah eggs were
19:16
$4 a 12-pack so that's really good yeah
19:19
over here was 10 yeah but
19:26
yep splying up to get to the
19:30
DR okay so that's the store we went to
19:33
right there we walked all the way around
19:36
to the dinghy dock and that's the
19:39
entrance to the dinghy dock over there
19:43
so now we got to go get out here and
19:46
some people wavy oh god I already see
19:50
people waving through it oh yeah that
19:52
looks fun let's see we'll zoom in oh
19:56
yeah all nice and wavy out there so
20:00
we're going to go check out the beaches
20:01
in
20:02
Georgetown and uh yeah we did some
20:05
grocery shopping uh we explored uh
20:08
Georgetown now we're going to the other
20:10
side the where there's no town yeah we
20:14
haven't been to the beach yet looks
20:16
really pretty oh crap is it spilling
20:20
no I closed it you closed it our dog
20:24
well just sit down
20:26
she's spilling stuff but uh yeah so
20:30
we're heading this way
20:32
no we're not that's We are We're getting
20:35
close we're going over that way
20:37
somewhere over there
20:40
so we'll figure it out we're not going
20:42
where the rich people are on the beach
20:44
over
20:46
there so we're on the
20:49
beach and the
20:56
dog but yeah there's a lot of boats out
20:59
here
21:01
guys and we're we're And yeah we're on
21:04
the the old fogy side
21:12
so this right here is the trail marker
21:14
so you can walk across and see the
21:16
Atlantic babe you want to go see the
21:18
Atlantic
21:23
try my hardest to get off the Yeah he's
21:26
like "We get away from it we were just
21:28
on it just on it i'm good."
21:33
That's my baby
21:35
i guess it probably looks pretty from
21:37
shore but knowing the torture that it
21:40
could put you through
21:42
I don't even want to know what it's
21:43
doing over there so but mahamas do have
21:47
the best beaches babe she's going to
21:50
probably miss these
21:53
well yeah i'm going to miss cuz I know
21:55
that other places that we're going to be
21:58
going their beaches aren't as great but
22:01
you know different experiences
22:07
okay Bab's doing a stir fry and
22:10
rice and look at how much vegetable she
22:14
has in there we only had a little bit
22:18
she pans to the top yeah but it's going
22:20
to it's going to cond it's going to
22:22
condense down babe this is all
22:25
waterbased
22:27
so as soon as it condenses down it's
22:29
just going to be like half this pan
22:31
it'll be yummy for sure it's going to be
22:34
half the pan mhm but we're making three
22:36
cups of rice and the only reason why I'm
22:38
doing it this way is cuz we like to have
22:40
leftovers the next day and that will be
22:43
leftovers for lunch and dinner tomorrow
22:44
and we're going to town tomorrow and our
22:47
goal is to not eat out oh yeah that is
22:50
expensive no no in the last two
22:54
months of being here in uh and we've
22:57
only eat out like maybe four or five
22:59
times we've spent about $500 in eating
23:02
out it is very
23:07
expensive every time we freaking eat out
23:09
here so my goal in
23:11
Georgetown is to not eat out
23:14
we may get a beer or something no eating
23:17
now and I can go to the
23:20
store and spend way more money there mhm
23:24
yeah get some snacks why is that on i
23:28
don't know it was It was been on oh my
23:30
gosh we've left that on the entire time
23:37
so as my wife is back there cleaning
23:39
mold I fixed the AC so we can dehumidify
23:42
the house
23:46
the last time we had AC Oh
23:50
oh wow what coco yeah actually no the
23:54
last time we had AC was when I after I
23:56
put the water maker in i didn't bleed
23:59
the uh the uh um air out of the AC side
24:03
so the pump you you can't run it till
24:06
you bleed it or your pump will actually
24:08
burn up so it's bled now and uh I still
24:12
got the back AC to to bleed to the pump
24:15
but this is good enough and it's
24:19
starting to get cool in here and
24:21
hopefully uh some of that humidity is
24:24
going away and taking the mold with
24:27
it but yeah I'm just making videos and
24:32
uh fixing uh AC's
24:35
and burning burning gas to run the AC
24:39
and my wife is cleaning lots of
24:50
cleaning so we have the AC off now and
24:53
uh yeah it dehumidified it in here um I
24:58
been haven't been doing this because I
25:00
didn't have the AC fixed but I think
25:03
we're going to do this more often
25:04
because it gets a lot of humidity out of
25:06
the house and uh you know everything
25:09
feels dry in here but it's shortly not
25:13
because I have the door open and uh soon
25:17
I'll have to open all the windows cuz
25:18
it's getting hot but yeah maybe that'll
25:23
help
25:27
so babe is that going to be something we
25:29
have to do more often run the AC
25:33
yeah we're going to try to do that once
25:35
a week the mold especially in the
25:38
Bahamas or the Caribbean itself is just
25:41
out of control
25:43
i I vinegar it it looks all nice and
25:46
clean not even two days later you start
25:48
seeing that white uh chalky stuff on
25:51
your wood that's wood
25:54
and if you don't get to it right away
25:55
you will definitely have stuff that will
25:58
start growing we'll see how once a week
26:00
works we only ran it for about two hours
26:02
today so yeah but it's dry in here the
26:06
carpet doesn't feel
26:07
damp couches don't feel damp everything
26:10
was just feeling damp
26:12
could have
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been I don't even remember last time we
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ran that uh since uh could have been
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Fort Lauderdale yeah that's why I
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I didn't fix or didn't put the AC back
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together oh yeah
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