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Wednesday October 30, 2024 We’ve been busy in Hampton VA getting ready for our offshore passage to Antiqua. We’ve checked that all our systems are in order, gotten things fixed (because something breaks almost everyday on a boat), bought some equipment and gear (because Billy just can’t help himself) and have made our final preparations.
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October 2nd – October 20th Continuing on our journey south with Beth & Steve, we stopped in Stamford CT where courtesy of my brother Peter’s good friend, we were once again able to tie up to the Stamford Yacht Club dock. We had a wonderful dinner in downtown Stamford, where Peter was greeted by the
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Welcome to Season 2 of our adventures aboard S/V Carried Away! We’ve had a great summer back home in Marblehead, though it went by way too fast! Since we did not arrive back until July 4th we only had 12 short weeks and felt that we were busy the whole time. We got to reconnect
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June 7th -July 4th, 2024 We were very pleasantly surprised by our stay in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Since we had to make the stop to get hauled and have the rudder bearings replaced and some of our fellow cruisers didn’t have much good to say about the island, our expectations were low, but we found
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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 bearing part to be made and shipped from Turkey. But where better to slow down and chill out than in
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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 a 450 nm passage to the southernmost island of the 700+ Bahamian Island chain. The passage from a weather perspective
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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 power system so the generator can charge the batteries faster and more efficiently. Remarkably, all the work was done on
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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 the BVIs. We averaged 24 miles per day, so we were on the move, but we were able to make
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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 control, but just over a year ago it showed signs of advancing and while she was heroic in her approach
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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 baguettes and croissants! Our first port of call was Saint-Pierre on the north side of the Martinique’s west coast. We
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