Author: Duwan

December 14 – 16. We love the wind. It fills Blue Wings sails and propels her as she glides through the radiant blue waters of the Bahamas. It spins the blades on our wind generator charging our batteries which power…

December 6 – December 14. Our plan this season is to head south, island hopping through the Exumas to Long Island. From there we hope to make short trips (two or three weeks) to some of the more remote southern…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

April 26 – May 4. The islands of the Abacos define the borders of three expanses of water, The Sea of Abaco, The Little Bahama Bank, and the Bight of Abaco. Blue Wing has spent quite a bit of time…

May 11 – May 12. We arrived back in The States yesterday morning. It was a good trip across the Gulf Stream and we are glad to be back on the dirt for a while. We have both had long…

April 15 – April 23 We do a lot of waiting. Sometimes it is a relatively short wait, like waiting for the tide to change, or sometimes it is a longer wait, like waiting days (or maybe weeks) for the…

March 25 – April 1. When we came to Cat Island we knew that we would have no westerly protection from the impending front. We figured we could hold on one more time and suffer through it. The day of…