Beware, the title of this post is not a metaphor for longing for the sea or anything poetic like that. This post is really about seasickness, the puking kind. You have been warned. Imagine you are in the middle of a packed dining room with a large oval tray full of plates of quesadillas, burritos, …read more
Year: 2013
West Bay
December 3 – December 5. The sounds of a Calypso crooner singing “Down on the Boardwalk” float over the bay and drift through the hatches. Night has fallen and we are tucked into the v-berth after eating a hot meal, a game of Quiddler, an evening cocktail, and watching our “stories” on the computer. We …read more
Bimini to New Providence
November 30 – December 2. We have a three-day window to get to New Providence. The first two thirds of the trip is across the fairly shallow Great Bahama Bank. The last third is through the Northwest Channel with depths up to 1.5 miles. Our forecast is 15 knots of northeast wind for the first …read more
Crossing to Bimini 2013
November 26 – November 27. The human mind is a curious thing. One day you’re “living the life†on a sailboat in southern Florida. Then you get it in your mind you want to cross the Gulf Stream over to the Bahamas. You start looking for a weather window with clear skies and southern winds. …read more
Stuart to Miami
November 19 – November 25. Woo Hoo! We’re underway. It’s November 19th. We asked to raise the Roosevelt drawbridge at sunup. We motored out the St. Lucie inlet. And we’re now sailing south in the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart and the Sunset Bay marina are wonderful places. People choose to live there all year. But two …read more
Back to Stuart
And so, it’s back to Stuart to live in my folks’ house and get the boat ready for next season. We started by having Blue Wing moved from storage in Indiantown to the work yard there. Here I sanded the bottom, and did some fiberglass patching while Duwan painted the bottom in the warm glow …read more
2013 Traveling on the Dirt
For a few days at the end of June we found ourselves more homeless than usual. There was a two day gap in our house sitting schedule so we crammed all of stuff back into our little Honda Civic and headed out of town to do some visiting. Our first stop was at John and …read more
2013 Summer in Cabbagetown
Oh no, I’ve lost a chicken! It’s our first house sitting gig of the summer and Peter and Tova and the girls will be back from Italy in two weeks and they’ll be short one egg-laying hen. Where is she?!? It’s early June. We are back in Cabbagetown, where our pet-sitting calendar is lining up. …read more
Back in the Bahamas!
November 27 – 28. It is so good to be back! There is lots to tell about the summer’s adventures and our time in Florida getting ready for this season’s journey. We had a successful trip, but, unfortunately not uneventful, across the Gulf Stream to Bimini Tuesday night which we will write up as soon …read more
From Margaritaville to Magentaville
May 5 – May 11. On a nautical chart or GPS display the most direct route between two points is shown as a magenta colored line. In early May there is a steady stream of cruisers motoring back home, and sports fishermen coming out to the Bahamas. Often there are so many boats following the …read more