We have spent the last week exploring Penobscot Bay and loving its little nooks and crannies. We had a few destinations in mind from cruising guides and other sailor's reviews but we are letting our ...
Penobscot Bay, Maine
Narragansett Bay, Martha's Vineyard and Northwards
We spent the month of June exploring Narragansett Bay and Martha’s Vineyard, making several trips back and forth to get some scheduled boat work done. We also took a week out to fly back to Phoeni ...
Herreshoff Museum
A few days ago we decided to visit the Herreshoff museum. Nat and John Herreshoff were famous boat builders and this museum was all about them and the boats they built. It was really fun to explore as ...
Dolphin Thyme
Whitenose, my best friend, is swimming next to me. We are somewhere in between the places that humans call “Bermuda”, and “Newport”. Whenever I hear that, I always wonder where Oldport is. We ...
Portugese Man O' War
We are on our way to Newport from Bermuda and the wind has died completely. We are motoring and trying to stay occupied and focused. At first glance it seems like there is nothing out there but us! Wh ...
The Midnight Boat to Newport
Its 11:30pm and I have 30 minutes more of my nine to midnight watch. We left Bermuda today around 1:30pm after a too short, two day visit. We had originally intended to stay for a few more days but t ...
Back at Sea! :)
We're underway again! We left the slip in Saint Thomas yesterday at 11:30am, motored around to the end of the island and then deployed our genoa and main in 11 knots of breeze almost directly on the ...
Fun in the USVIs
We had not planned to go to the USVIs, but after struggling to find good places for Saltair to anchor in the BVIs, we followed our buddy boat Happy Sees - Shannon, Ed, Everett (9) and Sierra (7) - to ...
Operation Aquarius
As part of my boatschooling, I was assigned some creative writing. This is what I came up with. 5532 meters under the sea lies the Aquarius undersea base, also known as the International Sea Station ( ...
RMS Rhone
The RMS Rhone was a Royal Mail Service (RMS) steamer that sunk in the British Virgin Islands (BVIs) on the 19th of October, 1867, when hitting Black Rock Point, Salt Island. She was moored alongside ...