Preface: Fayaway is presently at anchor near Thunderball in the archipelago of Exumas, Bahamas, attending a cruisers’ rally. More about that later. If you continue reading below, you will backtrack with us to almost two years prior, as we were deep into the refurbishment of our “new” Fayaway in the Spring of 2021. Enjoy! Fayaway’s …
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Taste of Ragged Beauty
Fayaway’s course from Puerto Rico to The Ragged Islands. We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. Henry David Thoreau We “cleared out” of Puerto Real on a Wednesday …
Surrealism in SVI’s
Aahhh, the Spanish Virgins. Culebrita, aka Little Snake (Spanish), more an islet of Culebra, is a pleasant uninhabited outpost with beautiful beaches we last visited in early 2020. Swarming with little hermit crabs (where do they get their shells?) and literally capped off with an historic (1880’s) lighthouse relic, Culebrita is a can’t miss first-stop …
Whisker Pole Saga (Resurrection)
I’ve been pondering witty titles for this post, all on the subject of repairing a chafed pole. But decided on just settling for a basic matter-fact, not-too-cheeky version, not adding to the epidemic clickbait we all see now. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” G.K. …
Night and Day: Saba to St John
Fantastic Voyage! We departed the tumultuous Fort Bay of friendly Saba at 1700 hours. In the relatively calm 20 knots and 6 foot swells, our task to move our outboard engine to its taffrail perch was still quite a feat. That was the easy part. Sans motor, we then hauled (or more like rolled) Korykory …
SV Fayaway 