After waiting for a week for our transit date in Shelter Bay Marina, near Colon in Panama, we were assigned an afternoon time slot on Feb 7th. Timo and Hilari have been onboard since St Lucia and wil ...
Panama Canal Transit

After waiting for a week for our transit date in Shelter Bay Marina, near Colon in Panama, we were assigned an afternoon time slot on Feb 7th. Timo and Hilari have been onboard since St Lucia and wil ...
Last evening we went through the first set of locks of the Panama Canal - the Gatum Locks that brought us out of the Atlantic (Caribbean Sea) and into a fresh water lake - Lake Gatum. Later today aft ...
We do need to be a little better about updates to our blog! So much going on as we are sitting in Shelter Bay Marina getting ready to transit the Panama Canal and sail to the Galapagos. The fir ...
What a difference a year makes! Last year after finishing our transatlantic crossing with the ARC 2023, we had a long list of boat issues to resolve and we felt very overwhelmed. We were wondering wha ...
As part of my boatschooling, I have been working with a writing and reading tutor who has been giving me writing assignments. This is the first of them. The assignment was about the first time I had d ...
We arrived in Antigua at 3:30 am Sunday morning and dropped our anchor outside Jolly Harbour. From Bermuda we sailed 954 nm over five days and 15 hours, making an average speed of 7.1 knots and an av ...
It is a breathtakingly beautiful night. After a day of showers and clouds, the skies have cleared leaving nothing but the infinite universe of stars with a few planets interspersed. Jupiter is in its ...
It is 9:30pm on the 2nd of December and we’re roughly 75nm south of Bermuda, our home for the past four nights. As you can see from the tracker at the top of this page, we left Annapolis a week ago ...
October was quite eventful but ended with a fun Halloween in Annapolis. Can you spot my favorite pumpkin? Adam, Seth and our friends Tom and Cheri carved some beautiful pumpkins, a tradition that s ...
On September 20th, after spending ten days on a mooring at Larchmont, we moved over to the better sheltered anchorage of Port Washington while awaiting a good weather window to begin our passage south ...