Saturn 12 Foot Inflatable Mini Cat MC365 Review
October 11, 2016
When it came to purchasing a dinghy, we went well outside the box. After our friend, Fred Facker, asked if we had ever used an inflatable catamaran dinghy, we felt compelled to look into them. We don’t have space on deck for a RIB, so we wanted a fully inflatable dinghy we can stow in […]
Too Much Fun
September 12, 2016
We realize that it has been far too long since we posted anything. Basically, we have been having too much fun to update the blog, and taking time to inform you of the fun is less fun. However, we will make an effort to get some posts out in the near future.
Passages
August 4, 2016
“Everything on the boat is either salty or sandy…or both”, Andy commented as we deflated the dinghy in Grand Turk. He was exaggerating a bit; there was only a little sand in the cockpit and almost none down below. The interior of the boat was pretty dry as well. The sand in the dinghy was […]
It’s About Time
July 17, 2016
Many aspects of life are delimited by time. This is no less true while cruising. In fact, there are some extra time related elements to consider. It has occurred to me that there may be people confused by some of our time stamps. I will take this opportunity to explain time as it exists in […]
Grand Turk
July 14, 2016
As we approached Grand Turk on the day of our arrival, the engine quit. All the bashing to windward had stirred up all the junk on the bottom of the fuel tanks. We had already quit using one of the Racor fuel filters due to the bowl being full of crud, now the other was […]
My Metamorphosis Into a Cruiser
July 2, 2016
I feel that I’m getting into the rhythm of offshore sailing. Andy takes the first night shift from 9-2 or so and then I get the early morning hours. The best thing is getting to see both the sunset and the sunrise. We’ve seen the green flash before, but it’s always magical nonetheless. There is […]
Adventure
July 1, 2016
We’ve been discussing adventure and have concluded adventure comes when finding what you did not expect. That is sometimes because you didn’t have any expectations and sometimes because your expectations were incorrect. We did not expect to find ourselves up Contraband Bayou in south Lake Charles, so we had little in the way of what […]
My Great (mis)Adventure
June 21, 2016
I’ve been a little ambivalent about cruising; I mean I like the idea of living on a boat, going where the wind takes us, etc. but I’ve never spent more than a week on a boat. I moved onto the boat on June 1 and quickly fell into the routine. We left a little later […]
In The Beginning, We Learned Many Things
Our departure was fairly uneventful, and we like it that way. Unfortunately, we missed getting to see Jess at the Galveston Yacht basin, but we were otherwise fine with slipping out of Galveston Bay with little fan fair or excitement. That’s not to say we didn’t have a great departure. A small pod of dolphins […]
Our Initial Departure
June 16, 2016
The best laid plans and all that. Despite claiming that we would not allow boat projects to delay our departure, we are leaving three days after our initial date. To be fair, it’s not all due to boat projects. But the frame for the solar panels was certainly NOT seaworthy. After the initial plan to […]