The Adventures of Berkeley East and Crew

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Life After Cruising

Life After Cruising

Ecuador and Panama It’s been a year since we sold Berkeley East and ended 15 years of cruising in the US, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Sea.  Yet people still ask:  What will you do now; what can possibly compare to “living the dream”?  It is a very good question, one that deserves answering, and we intend […]

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Life After Cruising

Life After Cruising

Ecuador and Panama It’s been a year since we sold Berkeley East and ended 15 years of cruising in the US, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Sea.  Yet people still ask:  What will you do now; what can possibly compare to “living the dream”?  It is a very good question, one that deserves answering, and we intend […]

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Thanks for the Memories

Thanks for the Memories

Cornelius, North Carolina Buy a boat, jump aboard, and go cruising.  It’s a simple recipe for “Living the Dream”.  But the vessel is just one part of the cruising adventure.  While comfort and performance are key components, the places you visit, the people you meet along the way, the friends, family, and even strangers, who […]

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The End of an Era

The End of an Era

Ft. Lauderdale, FL There is a very old, well-known boating adage: “The two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they buy it, and the day they sell.” Whoever coined that phrase must have had a crappy boat. Our idea to purchase a boat and go cruising began years before we created […]

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Time to retire

Time to retire

Every year, for the past 15 years, we’ve asked ourselves where we should cruise next? We would spend all winter researching, discussing, and planning, knowing full well that everything could change once we got back to Berkeley East. Still, we enjoyed the process. But with BE’s return to the United States, our winter routine will […]

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The Homecoming

The Homecoming

Port Everglades, FL Berkeley East first arrived in Port Everglades, Florida in December of 2006. She was born at Queen Long Marine, in Kaohsiung Taiwan, put on a freighter, and shipped to Fort Lauderdale where we jumped aboard our new Hylas 54, and began what we thought would be a two-year cruising adventure. Nearly 15 […]

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Our ship came in!

Our ship came in!

Genoa, Italy This phrase typically refers to becoming wealthy or successful, so it might seem strange, in a declining economy during a pandemic, that “our ship came in” but it literally did. The BBC Scandanavia docked in Genoa just for us, or more specifically, for Berkeley East. Most people would naturally assume that when we […]

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The Final Farewell

The Final Farewell

Italy Berkeley East and crew have said “arrivederci” to Italy more times than we can recall. Sometimes out of necessity, often in search of a different country, or new adventure. But throughout the past 11 years, BE continually returned to wonderful Italia. And this year was no exception. While the season was brief due to […]

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