Slapdash sailing series#

Getting to Rode Trip bright and early in the morning at 7:30 am, we figured the trip up would take 3 hours, we’d play with the stingrays, fuel up the boat, have a little lunch, and be back to our mooring before dinner.

Â Soon it became a tourist attraction, and now plenty of charter boats visit there every day, bringing herds of cruise line passengers to watch, feed, and play with the stingrays.

Slapdash sailing series#

Â It’s a series of shallow sandbars just inside a reef where fisherman used to clean their catches and throw their scraps in the water, causing the stingrays to come feed on them, according to an article on D2items. Â Another thing that happens to be in the North Sound is Stingray City. Â There don’t seem to be any marinas in the West Bay where we’re anchored, only in the North Sound, about 12 miles away. Â With Brian and Stephanie ready to leave Cayman as soon as the next weather window pops up that will carry them North and then East around Cuba, they needed to top off Rode Trip’s fuel and water tanks. Â Any bit of traveling we did on our boats was because it had to be done, not just because we felt like going out for day to enjoy the water. Â But it also means that we’ve forgotten the meaning of a ‘pleasure cruise’. Â And probably for good reason too, if you’re traveling together you can’t very well leave one boat behind. Can you believe that in all the time Serendipity and Rode Trip have been together, we’ve never sailed on the others boats? Â Sure, there have been plenty times spent hanging out on one or the others, making dinners, playing games like ë²³ë¬´ë¸Œ, or just enjoying a bottle (or two) of wine, but never had we all been together on one boat while it was in motion.