Our last stop in Florida was Port Saint Lucie (~80nm from Cape Caneveral), where we spent a few days at anchor and did some last provisioning before heading to the Bahamas. It was a nice place with absolutely stunning houses at the beachfront, but it felt like almost everything ashore was private and difficult (if not impossible) to access. We did take the last chance to provision with more or less normal prices and of course kept a keen eye on the weather. After discussing a possible weather window with our sailor-friends from SV Tahoma we decided to go for it and started our crossing to the Bahamas. Crossing to the Bahamas involves crossing the Gulf Stream, so we carefully chose the weather window, to avoid uncomfortable sea-states.
We started our crossing by going south with a wind that allowed us to do some champaign-sailing (moderate wind from the land and almost no waves as we were sailing close to the shore of Florida). The crossing itself was mostly under motor because we chose a low-wind window, but luckily it was uneventful, as had we wished for.
