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  • Bahama Time

    May 24th – June 2nd, 2024 We’ve been on the move for so much of this journey that it’s very strange to have to slow down and chill out while we wait for the rudder… Read more

  • Passage to and through the Bahamas

    May 8th – May 23rd, 2024 With Billy’s sister Pam and our good friend Scott as our crew for the passage, we departed San Juan on Wednesday May 8th bound for Great Inagua Bahamas. It’s… Read more

  • Heading West: BVI to the Bahamas

    April 24th – May 8th, 2024 Our stop at Nanny Cay Tortola was really quick. We had some follow up work to be done on the new helm enclosure and added a component to our… Read more

  • Heading North: Grenada to the BVI

    Our “best man” Bob Alves joined us in Grenada to help us start heading north toward home. In the two and half weeks he spent on board we covered over 500 miles: from Grenada to… Read more

  • Grenada & Carriacou

    As I write this next post, we have experienced the terribly sad and heartbreaking loss of Billy’s sister Bonnie. Bonnie had been fighting lung cancer for many years and for a while had it under… Read more

  • Martinique to Grenada (finally!)

    The next island on our journey south was Martinique. We stopped in two beautiful ports – and while our French is not the best, the islanders were lovely and we got by ordering lots of… Read more

  • Guadeloupe and Dominica = Amazing Eco Tours!

    February 19 – March 5th, 2024 We are now making our way south to the Winward Islands which was our goal for this season – to get as far south as Granada. We sailed from… Read more

  • Back to Antigua

    January 3rd – February 17th, 2024 When we first told our Salty Dawg Sailing Association friends (who are very experienced cruisers) that we were going to head west to the BVI for Christmas, they said… Read more

  • A Very Merry BVI Christmas

    We let the kids decide where to meet for the Christmas holidays and they unanimously picked the British Virgin Islands. We had visited there 10 years ago with our friends the Fillenworth’s and the kids were… Read more

  • Antigua to St. Martin

    It’s impossible. Absolutely impossible to share all the cool experiences and photos from our first few weeks in the Caribbean and keep it a length you will actually want to read! But, I’ll do my… Read more

Welcome to our blog!

Bill and I have embarked on the journey of a lifetime, sailing our Leopard 48 Catamaran to the Caribbean, Bahamas and beyond . Through this blog, we hope to keep you all updated on our adventures and hopefully you’ll join us and be the subject of one! It’s a sweet, sweet life living on the salty sea! (JB/ZBB)

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