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Saltair Afloat

  • THE ADVENTURE
  • THE CREW
  • THE BOAT
  • FAMILY BLOG
  • WHERE IS SETH
  • RESOURCES

The Midnight Boat to Newport

May 21 2024 Adam

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 ...

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Back at Sea! :)

May 14 2024 Adam 4 comment(s)

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 ...

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Sint Maarten

Mar 29 2024 Adam 6 comment(s)

How do you write a blog update when you haven’t updated the blog in almost two months? Trying to answer that question is one of the reasons that I haven't written in so long. A few weeks became a ...

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The Best Laid Plans

Feb 03 2024 Saltair 6 comment(s)

By now, those of you who have been following our tracker and our blog may have noticed that the 2024 World ARC departed Saint Lucia towards Panama in early January without us. We reluctantly decided ...

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Atlantic Crossing Finish

Feb 01 2024 Saltair 1 comment(s)

We crossed the ARC finish line in Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia at 7:10 am local time on December 7th, a few hours shy of 18 days after we started in Gran Canaria. We sailed 3177 nautical miles, roughly 37 ...

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1100 Miles from Anywhere

Nov 29 2023 Saltair 11 comment(s)

Adam here. Tonight I’m on the midnight to three watch. It is a beautifully starry night with an almost full moon punctuated by scattered trade wind clouds. The wind is a bit shifty and gusty though ...

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700 Down, 400 to Go!

Sep 15 2023 Saltair

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 ...

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And... We're Off!

Sep 10 2023 Saltair 4 comment(s)

We're finally on our way to Madeira! You can follow our progress at: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Saltair We left Brest at 3:30pm yesterday (Saturday, the 9th), well within our ...

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The Channel Islands and Brittany

Sep 02 2023 Saltair 4 comment(s)

We crossed the English Channel heading south from the UK on the 23rd of August, heading for Alderney in the Channel Islands. Alderney is the furthest north of the Channel Islands and at roughly 80nm ...

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Thank you Paul!

Aug 10 2023 Saltair 2 comment(s)

Wow... what an amazingly productive three days in Bruinisse! Starting with Tuesday... We hauled Saltair out of the water in order to replace the lip seal in the starboard rudder bearing. It turns ...

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FILED UNDER: maintenance

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  • Seth’s catch up

    The seahorse photo is so cool!

  • Seth’s catch up

    Nice report Seth. It sounds as if you are busy every minute of the day and have covered a lot of miles since we saw you in Rodney Bay. The photos are great but the one with the shark made the mom in m ... Read more

  • Seth’s catch up

    Wonderful experience

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    Wow! What a trip. Seth, you write very well. Love reading about your experiences. Take care. Love to you, mom and dad. Aunt Joan

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