The last few days have been consumed with boat work, we have had a challenge with water ingress in the lazarette since we started with the boat and even after two repairs the problem is back! It is no ...
Thanksgiving was in Day 4 of our crossing and the winds have been light. There is a swell but we are all handling the motion well! My meal planning consists of a rolling 7 day plan to keep things var ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...