Frederiksted is a nice small town, and a good anchorage, leaving us with not much reason to mosey on further at the moment. The pier is an awesome place to hang out underwater. Spotted eagle rays, turtles galore, and just a cool all around place to explore. The pier guard … Read More
Virgin Islands
We left Puerto Rico, again, with fresh batteries (warranty replacement), a bunch of newly made battery cables, a fully tested battery system, enough food for a few weeks, and a calm forecast to make the day’s run over to St. John. My wind forecasting didn’t take into account a few … Read More
Coastal Puerto Rico
We rented a car and headed for the north coast to find some waves for the day. Jobos is a cool spot, that’s pretty good for beginners, with the only problem being a wicked rip current that does a circle in the bay. Once out to the sand bar, though, … Read More
Jamaican Rumble
When the strong winds out of the southeast finally let up after nearly three weeks, they shifted to the north, bringing with them a nip of the Arctic U.S. At least it felt that way to us, but in reality it meant lows of seventy degrees. Time to dig out … Read More
Cayman Crossing
I was up early and waiting outside the Immigration office on Boxing Day. We would have preferred to leave around two in the morning so we could arrive in the Caymans before nightfall of the second day, but we needed our clearance papers from Honduras before we could go. Fortunately … Read More
Adios Mexico
Time to roll on out of Mexico. We’d probably cruise Mexico forever if there were new places to visit and explore, but the Caribbean coast really has very few spots for cruisers. We enjoyed Isla Mujeres, but three months was enough for us, we were all anxious to move on. … Read More
Trawler vs. Sail
Trawler vs. Sail Trawler versus sail—a comparison that is often dismissed as an old-person versus young-person, apples-to-oranges argument. It’s assumed that a sailor will sail until his hands are too crippled to manage a line any longer, then buy a trawler that will sit dockside, until one day a dockmaster … Read More
Calm to Crazy
Next stop on the Yucatan tour was Coba. It was fun to hire a bike taxi to zip us around the ruins. With how warm it was it was nice not to be hoofing it through the woods. It was relatively quiet through most of the Coba ruins, but that’s … Read More
Highbourne Cay
After a few fun days at anchor off Chub Cay we took the one calm day in the forecast to make a run to Nassau, about the only place to hide out from the winds for the next week. Not where the kids wanted to be, and not where Ali … Read More
Up in the Air… Airstream.
Long about the middle of our recent stay in New York we decided that renting places to stay in for a month at a time wasn’t going to work for us. We enjoyed visiting new places, but we didn’t enjoy the places we were living in. In New York our … Read More
Seattle Tourists
I’ve said it a million times, but it’s true, that when you live this wandering lifestyle the world gets smaller. Case in point, the other day we got to meet up with our friends from Mali Mish who we last saw in Santa Barbara about a year ago. We also … Read More