We decided to do a citizen science project called Sealabs where, as we cross the Atlantic we will take water samples and send the numbers back to Sealabs. When we picked up the kit at the ARC of ...
Start of our Atlantic crossing
The last week has been really busy getting ready for the start of our Atlantic crossing with the ARC. Our scheduled departure was November 19 and as the date approached all of us were busy. Adam was m ...
Halloween for Cruisers
The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) is an annual transatlantic sailing event (rally) that starts in November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and finishes at Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean. ...
Family Time
Saltair has been in Las Palmas Gran Canaria for over a month and we have made a lot of progress on our repairs and improvements ! The last couple weeks have been focused on family and spending time wi ...
Christopher Colombus-first voyage
On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships. The largest was a carrack, the Santa María, owned and captained by Juan de la Cosa, and under Columbus ...
Casa de Colón (Francais)
Nous sommes à Las Palmas, Grand Canaries pour quelques semaines et bien que la scolarisation de Seth soit difficile nous essayons au moins de faire des excursions pédagogiques! Mardi nous sommes all ...
Feeling welcomed in Madeira.
We love Madeira! We arrived late Saturday night (September 16) and decided to anchor instead of trying to moor in the Marina in the dark. It was pitch black and we safely dropped and secured the anc ...
Offshore fishing
We were in Brest about to commence the one week passage to Madeira and wanted to do some offshore fishing (no, not the email scam). We asked our friend Paul who came to do the passage with us to help ...
Sailing Offshore - lessons learned
Sailing from Brest to Madeira was my first offshore passage and all my expectations and preparations were based on testimony and experiences from others. I read many guides and articles to gather tip ...
700 Down, 400 to Go!
We're now well past the halfway point and I have a few minutes free this afternoon to contemplate our journey so I thought I would update our followers. We left Saturday afternoon from Bre ...