Road Bay, Anugilla As has become the norm, we planned to go to one place and ended up somewhere else. This time it was Anguilla. The passage to St. Martin is into the trade winds and we left at midnight. Anguilla is roughly the same direction, but given it is a little south to the […]
Virgin Islands After more than a month of boat work in the marina, we were anxious to get back to cruising, so with the repairs done we headed out to the Virgin Islands. With a couple weeks behind us and a few days at Peter Island, St. John and St. Thomas we felt like we […]
After arriving back in Tortola from Charlotte we headed over to St. Thomas for the big New Years Eve party at Yacht Haven Grande. This was a great party with over 5,000 people, fireworks and two live bands. We meet up with fellow cruisers, Irene and Andy from Aphrodite, and partied until after 2:30 in […]
After we finished with the Caribbean 1500 parties, we headed back to Tortola to recover from all the fun. We left Virgin Gorda in a large North swell, and as we exit the harbor there were surfers ridding 5′ waves right next to Berekely East. It looked like we would need to go through the […]
US East coast to the British Virgin Islands After a great summer at home on the lake, visiting family and friends and collecting enough wine to restock the boat, we decided to head back to the Caribbean for the winter. We joined the Caribbean 1500 (the cruising rally we sailed with last year) for the […]
San Juan Puerto Rico We set out from Antigua to St. John, US Virgin Islands. We had not done an overnight passage in quite some time, the last one being a challenging night from Tortola to Antigua. This passage was nearly the reverse trip, but luckily it was uneventful. The winds cooperated and we found […]
Antigua, West Indies As we left Antigua, boats were readying for the first in a series of races marking the 41st Annual Antigua Sailing Week. Many famous boats, such as Leopard 3, had come from all over the world to participate in the events. We chose a spot to watch the start of the race, […]
Leeward Islands No, we did not take the boat to Australia. But being surrounded by a flotilla of charter boats occupied by Australians, it felt as if we were back in Oz. We went back to the Saintes to meet up with good friends Anne and Martin, who came all the way from Sydney to […]
Iles des Saintes, Guadeloupe Leeward Islands Well we have been in the Caribbean since early November and been delaying our turnaround for the last few weeks, but we had to start home or we would never get there. So, we left the Tobago Cays and started the trip north with a short stop in St […]
St Vincent & the Grenadines At some point we had to turnaround to head back to the US, but the Grenadines are so nice that we headed further and further south. This time we ended up in the Tobago Cays, a small group of deserted islands protected from the Atlantic seas by a large reef. […]
