Cookies were a topic of conversation with one our sons recently. He had recently been baking his favorites, as a fun and delicious quarantine activity. An activity I’d do often with the kids when they were younger, I’m glad that pastime has stuck. Our talk reminded us of our dessert experience here in the Caribbean. …
Category: Places
Diversions (Traversing Bahamas)
So we had left Culebra in our last post. Now we’re nicely making way into our passage northwest - at least for a few days and nights toward the point of East Bahamas marker at 26N 68W. Wind was just aft of starboard beam, and Fayaway is really screaming along at 7-plus knots, flying a …
Long Strange Trip (so far)
Having been anchored in a small cove on the north side of Ensenada Honda, a little bay in Culebra, Puerto Rico, we enjoyed a tranquil existence. We chuckled as we complained about the air temperature dropping below 80 degrees. We bristled at a “cold” upwelling of water might have touched our naked undersides while on …
Sea Monkeys?
Aside from larger boat projects, and prior-mentioned provisioning for our upcoming passage, there is an incessant list / de-list process aboard Fayaway. Planning and executing starts slowly, and then nudged along by a small amount of pre-departure anxiety we move more quickly toward moving the sticky notes over to the “completed” side. We are now …
Dreaming For Decades
You read many books, attended seminars and became immersed in the how-to’s. You have become obsessed with passionate stories by Moitessier, Roth, Kretchmer, Baldwin, etc. Imagine having dreamed for decades that you're going to do this bigger trip, and intensively planned for another five years, then executing. You are going to slow your life down, …
