Happy New Year! We hope you are gaining ground to be successful in your 2020 pursuits. It's lovely here in the warm and windy Caribbean, and there's so much more for us to see and do. We want more time to spend exploring islands and meeting interesting folks. So I'm writing this post to let …
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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 …
Bermuda We Love You, But…
...We're ready to go. How many rum swizzles does it take!? After an unplanned arrival in darkness through a treacherous coral entrance nine days ago, we are making preparations for the departure from Bermuda by an easier route. This time we'll pass outward through the reefed gateway during daylight, and it will be on our …
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 …
Long Passage Musings and How We Got Here (part 1 of 2)
In about ten days we head out for the longest, furthest ocean passage that either of us undertaken. Of course we have been vigorously preparing, constantly discussing adjustments, changes, and even more upgrades. The list gets shorter and then we add more items, or make a new list. Since Kelly and I spend almost all …
Continue reading Long Passage Musings and How We Got Here (part 1 of 2)
Real Boat Life
You imagine life on a sailboat: morning coffee in the cockpit, reading a book stretched out in the sun, a lazy afternoon, maybe a swim in clear blue water followed by sundowners, dinner of freshly caught fish and an evening of stargazing. But the reality so far is a bit different as we adjust and …
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 …
