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Mar 5, 2025Multiple Ways to Fall
Jul 3, 2024The Matterhorn was Calling
Jun 23, 2024It All Started with a Glass of Wine
Jun 15, 2024A Different Type of Exercise
Jun 9, 2024Back In The Saddle
Sep 8, 2023Paradise with an Ocean View
Apr 30, 2023The Business Trip
Feb 28, 2023An Unexpected Adventure
Jan 21, 2023Life After Cruising
Jun 4, 2022Thanks for the Memories
Jan 30, 2022The End of an Era
Nov 16, 2021Time to retire
Oct 21, 2021The Homecoming
Oct 5, 2021Our ship came in!
Sep 15, 2021The Final Farewell
Aug 20, 20202020 Hindsight
Aug 4, 2020Navigating a Pandemic
Oct 31, 2019The new normal
Sep 30, 2019Vessels of Freedom
Sep 15, 2019Out of Africa
Sep 8, 2019Storm Watch
Sep 12, 2018Full circle
Aug 22, 2018The need for speed
Aug 13, 2018The road less traveled
Aug 10, 2018Gunkholing the Maddalenas
Oct 1, 2017Last sail 2017
Sep 21, 2017The movie set
Sep 20, 2017Ciao Bella!
Sep 20, 2017And the sun sets on another great season in the Med
Oct 15, 2016Summer was over
Sep 28, 2016The “Cool” Aunt
Sep 21, 2016Flying in Venice
Sep 21, 2016Living in the hood
Sep 24, 2015Change of plan
Aug 24, 2015Is this the Caribbean?
Jul 16, 2015Hylas Rendezvous
Jul 14, 2015You know you’re relaxed when…
Sep 11, 2015Land of ouzo and zucchini fritters
Sep 7, 2015Cocktails, sunsets and other stuff
Oct 2, 2014One more island
Sep 9, 2014From rubble to ruins
Oct 1, 2013A country of contrasts
Sep 1, 2013Learning to live in Turkey
Aug 28, 2013Saving the best for last
Aug 24, 2013When a plan comes together
Aug 29, 2013Reaching a Goal
Jul 29, 2013Anchors Away
May 14, 2013A recap of 2012 cruising season and plan for 2013
Oct 10, 2012Greece, Finally.
Mar 24, 2012A recap of 2011 cruising season and plan for 2012.
Oct 9, 2011The End of the Season.
Sep 12, 2011Sorpresas (Surprises) in Sicily.
Sep 4, 2011August in Italy
Mar 11, 20112010 Recap – Our Third Year of Cruising.
Dec 16, 2010Finally, An Update.
Sep 1, 2010Learning to Love Sangria
Sep 1, 2010Festivals in Menorca
Dec 1, 2008Thanksgiving in the Caribbean
Nov 17, 2008Caribbean Bound – Again
Aug 11, 2008Back to Annapolis
Jun 2, 2008Flying through the Gulf Stream
Dec 25, 2007Christmas in the Caribbean
Dec 19, 2007St. Thomas, Olga and the Bitter End
Dec 10, 2007St. John by Land and Sea
Dec 3, 2007More of the British Virgin Islands
Dec 15, 2006Berkeley East Arrives
Jul 6, 2006Visit to Queen Long
The Adventures of Berkeley East and Crew
Off to the Mediterranean
While we missed the warmth of the Caribbean this winter, we enjoyed our time at home, visiting family, and hanging out with friends. We also accomplished a couple notable things during our time on land : 1. We blended our own wines: “Beast Cabernet Sauvignon” (short for Berkeley East) “Mary’s 100 Point Wine” – (named for the […]
Day Four
In route to the Azores Someone took our wind. Or some how we where transported into the doldrums overnight. At the 6am watch, we are bobbing rather than sailing. So much for the 9-day crossing idea. On the positive side, Berkeley East is really clean after all the rain last night. This afternoon brought light […]
LAND LOCKED
Cornelius, North Carolina For the past two years, October has been a month packed with boat projects as we readied Berkeley East to make the passage south for the winter. While we had decided to take BE to the British Virgin Islands with the Caribbean 1500 boat rally again this year, and then sail across […]
Summer in North Carolina and a New Plan For 2009 / 2010
Cornelius, North Carolina Berkeley East is doing well, resting nicely at the marina in Hampton, VA, while we enjoy some land time at our house just north of Charlotte, North Carolina. We keep an eye on the hurricanes and travel up to the marina regularly to ensure that the boat is doing well, but the […]
Bluewater Marina
Hampton, VA With Berkeley East safely docked in Bluewater Marina, we began getting her ready for a restful summer. This involved a lot of washing, cleaning, polishing and unloading. We went through all of the outside lockers, getting rid of things we had not used in the last 12 months and making way for new […]
Back in Civilization
Ft Lauderdale, FL While we could have stayed in the Exuma’s forever, time was pressing and hurricane season was approaching, so we made tracks to Florida. Motor sailing across the Exuma Bank to Chubb Cay, then across the Grand Bahama Bank to Bimini, and finally through the Gulf stream to Florida. We arrived in Ft. […]
Been there done that, but it was so good we had to do it again.
Exuma Cays, Bahamas to Ft. Lauderdale Florida It was difficult to leave the excellent snorkeling at Wardrick Wells, but we knew that the islands ahead where outstanding as well, so we set off across the banks on the passage to Shroud Cay (all of 20 miles). Shroud did not disappoint us. It is a cay […]
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