Passage to Cuba
After nearly two weeks of waiting for favourable weather, the harbour was full of sails, as boat after boat left Georgetown.
Lessons Learned
When one prepares to go cruising you spend a lot of time reading about the lifestyle and, for men, what gear you will need. Online, you can find a well reasoned argument for both sides of every issue which makes it really hard to decide what is right for you. We made our choices and…
100 Days in the Bahamas
May 22 will mark one hundred days since we entered the Bahamas. It seems like living on the canal in Key Largo was a lifetime ago and that our awesome family vacation in Hawaii even further back.
Fishing Off of Viatori
Over the last two weeks several items have fallen over board and sunk to the bottom 15 feet below Viatori. The last straw was the glass lid on the coffee percolator. The prospect of no coffee on board for the next while had me jumping overboard and diving down to find it. I failed to…
Defever Fever
When we bought our boat I had no experience with boats except for the few sailboats I had sailed on during my training and chartering. We only looked at sailboats, not power boats, mainly due to a subconscious bias that power boats are more expensive to buy, run, maintain and with less flexibility due to…