Month: July 2016
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 […]