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 ...
WARC Leg 1 St Lucia to Santa Marta
Happy New Year and Start of the World Arc
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 ...
First time foiling
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 ...
Antigua Arrival!
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 ...
Frustrating Day, Spectacular Night
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 ...
Underway from Bermuda
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 ...
Halloween and Fall Brawl
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 ...
Anchoring in Manhattan? And other adventures on the way to Annapolis!
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 ...
Exploring New York City
In mid September when on our way to Annapolis we stopped for a fun few days of exploring New York City. I spent a decade living there in the 90's so it was fun to share some of my old haunts with Set ...
Annapolis, Family and Health Update
We have been in Annapolis for close to 6 weeks now, a lot longer than anticipated. Our initial plans were to arrive a few days before the sailboat show, attend the show, visit with friends and get a f ...