We made it!! We arrived in Spanish Wells, Bahamas 98 hours—89 engine hours (including some motor-sailing)—after leaving Beaufort, NC. We are so happy to be here. It has been almost two years since we were last in the Bahamas and we have missed it. We never tire of the gorgeous shades of blue water. Our passage was relatively uneventful. We would have preferred a bit more wind to enable us to sail more, but we took what we could get. We raised the sails many times when the wind would pick up, only to furl them an hour or two later when the wind dropped. We left Beaufort with a reef in the mainsail and the furling boom enabled us to add and remove the reef without ever going up on deck. In the past—with our old mainsail system and in rough seas—the reef lines became fouled and/or the main halyard wrapped around the spreaders, requiring a trip up on deck to sort things out. This time we furled the mainsail many times in the dark and it always furled beautifully. The one slight n...