Bahamas 4 week Adventure Video!

nickruocco

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Middle River, MD
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2000 510 Sundancer
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Cat C12
Check out a little sample video of my trip to the Bahamas. This was a 4 week trip island hopping on my 510 Sundancer with just my girlfriend and I. Trip of a lifetime!

Any Questions, feel free to ask!

Watch the video on YouTube Here!
 

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Welcome and thanks for sharing!! I did Bimini years back, a trip of a lifetime. I only wish your video was 30 mines long, awesome!!!
 
Was that the "museum" in the Exumas? I can't remember which cay it was on, but the most beautiful place I've ever been. We used Sea Doo Explorers to get there, and still had to walk them a bit over the sandbars to ocean side.
 
Great video, tell us more about the trip, islands visited and time line, favorite places.
 
Check out a little sample video of my trip to the Bahamas. This was a 4 week trip island hopping on my 510 Sundancer with just my girlfriend and I. Trip of a lifetime!

Any Questions, feel free to ask!

Watch the video on YouTube Here!

Thank you. My blood pressure went down 10 points watching.
 
That was awesome and definitely on my bucket list of boat trips to accomplish. Thank you for sharing your trip.
 
Thank you so much everyone! It really was a trip of a lifetime and an enormous challenge to ramp up navigation skills along with weather, tides, provisioning, boat prep, etc. I tried to play it very safe and just wanted to complete the trip. We started in Ft. Pierce moving down the coast and hopped over to Bimini with a small weather window. From Bimini we went to Chub Cay, Highborn Cay, Waderick Wells, Compass Cay, Cambridge, to Staniel Cay, and Back up north hitting more different islands. Each place was so special in its unique way. We had our challenges everyday and moved when the conditions told us to(or not to). I really struggled writing this as there were so many incredible moments. I tried to Film and take as much video as I could. I will put more together soon to share. One of My most favorite moments was when we were moored at Waderick Wells in Pirates Layer. It was a very difficult morning as the current was ripping so fast and my girlfriend had NEVER done it before. I eased the stern in and we attached a long line and was able walk the line forward as the current swept us away so fast! This was tense and took some time but we got it done safely! After taking a deep breath and realizing we are now able to enjoy this Amazing place all to ourselves just feet from the pristine beach, we made drinks :). Traci threw a handful of crumbs overboard any a massive school of fish immediately came to eat it. I blew up a floating toy to hang off the Back of the boat to repair the Bottom of the Dinghy which had a crack in it from a failed repair. During this repair, I look back to see a very curious 4' Barracuda stalking me the whole time! We were eager to get out on the dinghy but it needed time to dry so I loaded up the raft with Traci, a cooler with lunch & drinks and I swam the short distance to the beach. Later at Night, we made dinner and I put out a blue underwater LED light off the stern and turned every other light off. We went out on the bow and saw every star in the sky including a shooting star! The $20 LED light shined so bright in the clear water, it put us in a 50 foot radius gorgeous blue light. We then shut all the Canvas to watch a movie in the cockpit when we started hearing some splashing. I go look over the side of the boat to find 4 sharks and so many fish attracted to to light!! at first my my heart sank when I looked over and saw a MASSIVE fish what looked like it was 20 feet long only to finally see it was the smaller fish creating a PERFECT shadow on the white sand bottom! I threw the leftover dinner and watched them eat it. They stayed behind the boat for hours most likely waiting for scraps other boaters have trained them to do. Things like this happened everyday! Some of that footage in the video was from this day(drone footage, sharks at night, dinner). Thanks again everyone! I will get together some more footage of this day on others if you would like? It's great to relive it during these crazy times! Hope everyone is safe!
 

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