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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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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 Antigua to the lovely little town of Deshaies on Guadeloupe. It’s pronounced “Day-ay” which took us a while to get…
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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 we were crazy! It would guarantee having to beat back into the usually strong east winds to get back to Saint…
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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 keen to return. It did not disappoint! With a good weather window Bill and I arrived via an overnight sail from…
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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 best. Having arrived from Hampton VA to Antigua we settled into Nelsons Dockyard in English Harbor with all the Salty…
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