{"id":9148,"date":"2023-04-18T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=9148"},"modified":"2025-05-24T21:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T01:46:19","slug":"2023-sailing-rv-ing-and-boating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/2023-sailing-rv-ing-and-boating\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 &#8211; Bahamas Sailing, RV-ing, Boating and Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled with anticipation for the 2023 year. <em>Winnie<\/em>, our travel trailer, is ready and eager for the year&#8217;s adventures.\u00a0<em>Shearwater V<\/em> has survived months of a modernization project and is ready for local boat travel with the hope of a longer voyage that never happened when we sold her.\u00a0 Finally, we are looking forward to a family voyage with Stu&#8217;s kids to the Bahamas on a chartered large sailboat.<\/p>\n<p>The year started with several trips to our &#8220;summer home&#8221; at the Winter Haven Moose. This lovely spot is located on the chain of lakes and provides a never ending set of local boat trips, especially when the temperamental Tango Jet Boat, <em>Two To,\u00a0<\/em>is happy and running. Our best trip of the year, so far, was a drive to a local lake where the Cyprus Gardens Ski Team put on an amazing, free, display of water sky and hang gliding.<\/p>\n<p>We have explored only a small fraction of the Chain of Lakes in Two-To, our aging jet boat. The exploration included many fine meals along the shore &#8211; in the never ending search for perfect catfish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WH-Chain-of-Lakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9328\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WH-Chain-of-Lakes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WH-Chain-of-Lakes.jpg 750w, https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WH-Chain-of-Lakes-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/index.php\/2023-april-15-joans-birthday-in-winter-haven\/\">You can read all about the celebration of Joan&#8217;s Birthday and the amazing ski show put on in her honor by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May, we Winnie carried us on a late Spring 2023 East Coast trip. Read all about our adventures in Washington, DC with Shirley&#8217;s family, Baltimore, Md. with Bob and his family, and Chincoteague,\u00a0 Md with the ponies, dolphins, and birds by <a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/2023-5-8-5-30-to-wash-dc-fl-folk-festival-chincoteague\/\">Read about the Washington, DC trip by Clicking Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<strong>July 7 to July 16,<\/strong> we took a family vacation in the Bahamas on the Sailing Catamaran,\u00a0<em>Happy Day,\u00a0<\/em>a 5 cabin floating condo that provided bedrooms for 10 people with room for two more uncomfortable bunks we did not use.<\/p>\n<p>The unbelievablable scenery was captured by Miguel with a combination of drone, surface and underwater photos. Take a moment to share the memories with us:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 660px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9148-1\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" poster=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sail-boat-in-the-Bahamas.jpg\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Abacos-2023-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Abacos-2023-2.mp4\">https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Abacos-2023-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Click above to view the beautiful 2023 Bahamas Sailing Adventure<br \/>\nby Miguel Roman<\/p>\n<p>The trip was comfortable, except for terrible air connections. Everything on the boat worked as advertised and most meals were a delightful combination of Bahamian food and drinks.<\/p>\n<input type=\"button\" value=\"Click here to return to the Previous Page\" class=\"alg_back_button_input \" style=\"\" onclick=\"window.history.back()\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled with anticipation for the 2023 year. Winnie, our travel trailer, is ready and eager for the year&#8217;s adventures.\u00a0Shearwater V has survived months of a modernization project and is ready for local boat travel with the hope of a longer voyage that never happened when we sold her.\u00a0 Finally, we are looking forward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/2023-sailing-rv-ing-and-boating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2023 &#8211; Bahamas Sailing, RV-ing, Boating and Moving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":9154,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9148","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9148\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}