Jolly Harbor, Antigua that is. And that's from St George's, Bermuda. We had to repeat that today to a couple guys on a holiday from New York. It always seems to take me aback when people are surprised to hear that we sailed here. And yes, to answer another common question, it is only the …
Category: Places
Which Way Do We Go?
Reader Intervention Requested! Pondering during our relaxation from travel period here in Beautiful Antigua, we start discussing the next places to visit. You may recall me responding to questions about where we are going, even before we left. Ok, you got one of us to answer reluctantly, perhaps saying, “South”, which may have then sounded …
Rock And Roll
Or More Antigua Passage Notes. Decades ago, during one of my very first offshore passages, slogging down the east coast of New England, a familiar Old Salt in a nearby sailing vessel often used the term rock and roll to describe our condition over the radio. He'd say with a twangy drawl, We loooove rock …
What Are You Waiting For?!
There are worse places to be than Bermuda in late November. Much to explore, warm (shorts) weather and people. We didn’t intend to be here, but it really is quite nice. Upon arrival we knew we’d be here for several days, and so started to make the best of a good situation. Sailor Kelly with …
Antigua Will Wait
We arrived last night at St George’s, Bermuda customs dock, cleared-in and secured (more like scored) a cozy spot against an ancient concrete quay. We are lucky to have this spot, literally tied to a cannon, considering the weather (get to that in a minute), as we just squeezed-in between the pilot boat St David …
How We Got Here (part 2 of 2)
In the first part I described how we started this adventure, and not in the sense of casting off, but how it really started. We left off at the point of changing our anticipated date of departure, but had yet to tell everyone in our lives... Sailor Kelly works At Fayaway’s taffrail We were living …
Buoy Entertainment
The friendly town of Georgetown is nestled up into the serene Sassafras River (too big to be called a Creek?) of northeastern Maryland. This is our next port of call, as we proceed south down the Chesapeake Bay. About 4 hours of light motoring (ugh) moved us to Georgetown from Chesapeake City, leaving us plenty …
Places we’ve never been
As we start this adventure it is worth noting why we are heading out, it's not to get away from anything or anyone. Quite the contrary. We already miss our friends and family. They are life's most precious assets. Running down Buzzards Bay We are going purely for the adventure of "discovering" new places and …
Gobs of Water, Water Everywhere!
Or Zen Update Readers may recall an earlier post about our Zen30 watermaker. A few days ago we took another mid-week sojourn over to one of our favorite local “hangouts”, Isles of Shoals. We had a couple things in mind: foremost, just to get away for a couple days; and second, to complete a project …
Smuttynose and Weather
Map borrowed from Wikipedia; Isles of Shoals is actually part of Kittery, Maine We spent a couple nights aboard Fayaway at the Isles of Shoals last week, for our first time away from Newburyport since splashdown only a few weeks before. We had been out day sailing, and had participated in several club races this …
