Ok, you asked for it - this is too good to resist! Here's a few oldies from some Bahamas trips I made with my Seafari and the Moesly 21, "Unohu" in the late 70's. I once figured out that I had followed the Unohu for about 2000 miles over the course of a half dozen Bahama trips! All trips were made with a 1975 Evinrude that was about 100 hp at the prop, proving you don't need 200 hp to have a lot of fun with a 20' SeaCraft! This was waay before GPS so all navigation was by compass/dead reckoning. Most of the shots were taken with a Canon AE-1 35mm, many with a polarizing filter, which cuts glare and brings out the clouds.
Pics 1 & 2 are @ Pelican Cay, near Green Turtle Cay, Abaco.
Pic 3 is Pelican Cay as seen from the beach in front of our cottage on Green Turtle, and my daughter who was about 6 at the time (She's now 42!)
Pic 4 is the Unohu anchored in about 10' of water off Guana Cay; note shadow on bottom!
Pic 5 is the beach we were anchored at, NE of Great Guana Cay, Abaco.
Pic 6 is another beach on the west side of No Name Cay, south of Green Turtle.
Pic 7 is another shot of the Unohu at the dock, the year we stayed on Guana Cay.
Pic 8 is a shot at the marina at West End, Grand Bahama of my boat, the Unohu, and Verbotin, a 23' Seabird that ran with us one year. Note the old Apelco flasher/recorder mounted below the helm on my boat!
Pics 9 and 10 are a couple more shots of the Unohu.
Owner Bob, climbing over the transom in Pic 9, was a gung ho diver, used to dive 2 tanks Saturday and Sunday nearly every weekend of the year. He literally wore out 4 engines in that boat and was on engine No. 5 when he sold it after owning it for 27 years! He retired several years before I did and I lost touch with him for a few years. Would have bought that boat in a heartbeat had I known he was trying to sell it! It's ride was incredible! He once made the 60 nm trip to West End in 5 hrs with winds east at 20-25, in seas of 10-12' with small craft warnings flying, SITTING DOWN (which is the ONLY way you could ride in the stock Moesly 21)! The best part was when he refueled at West End, he said it only took 19 gallons! Denny
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