| Lessons | p. viii |
| Nautical Mumbo-Jumbo | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Contemplating the Plunge | |
| Whose Idea was This Anyway? | p. 3 |
| Monohulls vs. Catamarans | p. 6 |
| Monohulls | |
| Catamarans | |
| Safety for Catamarans and Monohulls | |
| Still Not Sure? | |
| Let's Buy a Boat | p. 13 |
| Research Makes Perfect | |
| Who's Paying? | |
| The Process | |
| So What Happened Next? | |
| The Best-Laid Plans | p. 26 |
| Ahoy, Matey! | p. 29 |
| What's in a Name? | |
| Thanks... I Think | |
| Final Preparations | |
| Casting Off | |
| And We're Off-Not | p. 35 |
| Need Fuel? | |
| So Thirsty | |
| Energize Me | |
| Bahamas Here We Come! | p. 39 |
| Tacking | |
| Back on Track | |
| Exploring the Islands | |
| Welcome to the Bahamas! | p. 45 |
| Great Sale Cay | |
| Allans-Pensacola Cay | |
| Green Turtle Cay | |
| What Do You Mean You're Leaving Us? | |
| Who's in Charge Here? | |
| A Quick Note About Charts and Navigation | |
| Becoming Green Turtle (Abacos) Bahamas Residents | p. 53 |
| Who Anchored This Thing? | |
| If One Anchor is Good, Two is Better, Right? | |
| Making Friends | |
| Brrrr on Green Turtle | |
| Not Again! | |
| Thankful on Thanksgiving | |
| The Whale (Cue the Suspense Music) | |
| After the Whale | |
| What Did We Learn Here? | |
| Breaking Free! | p. 69 |
| Ping-Ponging Around the Rest of the Abacos | |
| Becoming One with the Abacos | |
| You Can't Go Home Again | p. 77 |
| Back to the Abacos: Practicing and Fixing, Fixing and Practicing | p. 79 |
| Sailors in Training | |
| Fixing Things in Exotic Locations | |
| I See Another Pep Talk Coming | |
| Final Days in the Abacos | |
| Good-Bye, Abacos, Hello, Exumas (in the Central Bahamas) | p. 88 |
| Royal Island | |
| Allen's Cay | |
| Hawksbill Cay | |
| Warderick Wells Cay | |
| Compass Cay | |
| Big Majors Spot and Staniel Cay | |
| Black Point Settlement, Great Guana Cay (Yes, Another One) | |
| A Milestone is Reached-George Town (Bahamas) | p. 97 |
| Long Island | |
| George Town-Part II | |
| Guess It's Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around and Get Out of Here | |
| Who You Calling Chicken? Bahamas, Stage Left | p. 106 |
| What Broke? | |
| Turks and Caicos-Definite Possibilities | p. 109 |
| East Caicos | |
| Grand Turk | |
| Big Sand Cay | |
| What Broke? | |
| The Dominican Republic-Island A+, Anchorage F- | p. 114 |
| Life on Luperon and Beyond | |
| Road Trip! | |
| Who Invited Hurricane Dean? | |
| Break Out the Tissues | |
| Hurricane Season? What Hurricane Season? We're Leaving | |
| What Broke? | |
| Our Longest Sail Ever-Adios, Dominican Republic! | p. 127 |
| Hola, Puerto Rico! The United States on Island Time | p. 131 |
| A Tour of the Southern Coast- First Up, CaboRojo | |
| La Parguera | |
| Coffin Island | |
| Salinas | |
| Puerto Patillas | |
| Cayo Santiago | |
| Isla Palominos | |
| What Broke? | |
| Let's Talk Anchor Rode | |
| If We Can't Be Virgins, Then Let's Go to Them (the Islands, That Is) | p. 138 |
| Spanish Virgin Islands | |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | |
| British Virgin Islands | |
| Gobble Gobble on Tortola | |
| Final Moments with the Virgins | |
| What Broken? | |
| Bonjour! Welcome to St. Martin (and a Quickie to St Barths and Anguilla) | p. 151 |
| St. Martin: The Prequel | |
| St. Martin: Redo | |
| Work, Work, Work | |
| Play, Play, Play | |
| Back to Work | |
| What Broke? | |
| Island Hopping to Saba, Statia, and St. Kitts and Nevis (Islands That Brush the Clouds) | p. 160 |
| Saba | |
| What Broke? | |
| Statia (St. Eustatius) | |
| What Broke? | |
| St Kitts (St. Christopher) | |
| Nevis-The First Time | |
| Back to St. Kitts | |
| What Broke? | |
| Nevis as a Launching Pad to Antigua | |
| What Broke? | |
| A Stowaway on Antigua | p. 168 |
| What Broke? | |
| Graffiti and Guadeloupe | p. 174 |
| What Broke? | |
| Oh When Des Saintes | p. 177 |
| What Broke? | |
| Lush-Ous Dominica | p. 179 |
| What Broke? | |
| Martinique Gets a Quickie | p. 183 |
| What Broke? | |
| Was That St. Lucia? | p. 186 |
| What Broke? | |
| Reverse Course-Back to Antigua! | p. 187 |
| Dominica | |
| Guadeloupe | |
| Antigua | |
| What Broke? | |
| And Back Down Again on the Jacumba Express | p. 190 |
| What Broke? | |
| Coo-Coo for Carriacou | p. 192 |
| From Miami to Grenada: Who'd Have Believed It? | p. 194 |
| Island Fun | |
| Hauling Out and DIY | |
| What Broke? | |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Otherwise Known as Paradise | p. 198 |
| Carriacou | |
| Sandy Island | |
| Back to Carriacou | |
| Union Island | |
| Tobago Cays | |
| Canouan | |
| Bequia | |
| Mustique | |
| St. Vincent | |
| Bequia (Again) | |
| Tobago Cays (Again) | |
| Union Island (Again) | |
| Mayreau | |
| St. Vincent (Again) | |
| What Broke? | |
| Solo Sailor on Grenada | p. 208 |
| And He's Gone | |
| A Trinidad Quickie | |
| Backto Grenada | |
| Solo Sailing | |
| He's Back | |
| Waiting Out Hurricane Season | |
| A Brief Respite | |
| It's Time | |
| What Broke? | |
| The Final Run | p. 220 |
| The Grenadines to St. Lucia | |
| Dominica | |
| Les Saintes to Guadeloupe | |
| Montserrat | |
| Nevis and St. Barths | |
| What Broke? | |
| Hurry Up and Wait | p. 225 |
| Is This It? | p. 227 |
| Onshore | |
| A Visitor! | |
| Work, Work, Work | |
| Maybe, but Let's Go to Barbuda for a Look-see | p. 231 |
| What Broke? | |
| It was a Bad Sail; It was a Good Sail | p. 233 |
| Spinnaker R.I.P. | |
| Landlubbers Again | |
| You're Hired, We're Home (Sort of) | p. 239 |
| Back On Board | |
| What Broke? | |
| Sell, Sell, Sell! | p. 242 |
| Who's at the Helm? | |
| Meet Ana and Bill | |
| Happy Feet | |
| Sold... Based on Survey | p. 248 |
| Another Survey Story | |
| D is for Deflated, Dispirited, Depressed | p. 252 |
| Change That to Delighted, Delirious, Disembarking! | p. 253 |
| Our Last Tropical Storm! | |
| Our Last Shark Sighting! | |
| Our Last Boat Bottom Scrubbing! | |
| Our Last Deck Scrubbing! | |
| Our Last Intruder! | |
| Our Last Peeping Toms! | |
| Our Last Boat Payment! | |
| Our Last Night of Lasts | |
| Where are We Now? | p. 257 |
| Now It's Your Turn | |
| Time to Take the Plunge | p. 261 |
| Observations and Lists | p. 263 |
| General Thoughts | |
| Tips | |
| The End | |
| Appendix: How We Chose Our Island | p. 279 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
| Index | p. 287 |
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