2 people, one crazy dog, and one beautiful boat
We have been busy over the past week preparing for our rapidly approaching departure for the Virgin Islands. We hauled Altera last week for new antifouling paint and to inspect the saildrive and rudder. Since then we have been steadily…
Following the boat show, we sought a more protected anchorage to get some rest and moved up river to Weems Creek, which it turns out was nearly a repeat of our experience last February in Christmas Cove. We met…
7 1/2 years ago, Chrissy and I bought a Hobie Cat Getaway and the book “Catamaran Sailing from Start to Finish“. 2 years later we craved a more technical boat, with more strings to pull. So we bought a used racing…
We had a quick non-stop 260 mile trip from NYC to Annapolis, via the Delaware Bay and the C&D Canal, and we dropped our anchor in Annapolis the evening before the In-Water Sailboat show. We have wanted to see the show for…
Last year we cruised straight down the Hudson River passing Manhattan as we were on a tight schedule to join the Salty Dawgs and finish preparations for the offshore jump to the British Virgin Islands. This year, we had a bit…
We’ve made great progress in the past week knocking off more than 600 miles in our journey to warmer weather. We departed Arichat last Tuesday evening, a year and a day after we departed our home port of Penetanguishene. We…
We left Martha’s Vineyard last Monday and had strong SW winds to carry us across the 220 mile stretch between New England and Nova Scotia and then along the southern coast to Halifax.
We left Atlantic City mid-day in a gentle southwest wind. The forecast called for the wind to shift NNW in the evening so we headed north of the rhumb line in the afternoon planning to close reach as the wind shifted as this…
Our boating life has changed notably the past few weeks, so here are some of our observations about how life has changed since the islands and the signs that we may have gone north too quickly.
We departed Beaufort, NC with light winds which saw as motor or motor sailing half of our 60 or so hour trip to Atlantic City. This is one of the downfalls of being on a schedule, but on the bright…