For Sun and Stars Archive – Page 3

Turtle sails again!!! #sailing #starlink

At last, after 6 months (3 months more than expected), we LEAVE CHARLESTON!!!! We cleared up the last of the big projects and started to head South.

In the DEBUT Episode of our Medical Mondays Series, we talk about how to build your own medical kit. The Medical Mondays series will be a 12 part series.

Finally, we left the US! Watch us have the most incredible three day passage from St. Augustine to the Bahamas.

In the almost two years we've owned Turtle, we have been through 3 hurricanes and a bunch of storms over 40 knots of wind.

I saw Portuguese fried rice on the menu for breakfast at a diner in Portland and I ordered it and went home and started to re-create it.

While Dev continues his project work remotely, I say goodbye to my job and allow the uncertainty of the future be the guide to our future adventures.

This season is all about diving, sailing and friendships in the Caribbean so it's time we give it some real thought. Join us for a quick episode!

We've hit another set of storms and decide this is a great time to get some projects done. But we soon remember the success rate of boat projects...

Spandana leads the charge in the second episode of Medical Mondays, unraveling the art of CPR. Discover crucial insights on when, when NOT, and how to be a proactive responder.

We motor out of Staniel Cay finally and dig deep into the Exumas Land and Sea Park, the oldest land and sea park in the world!

Watch as we discover more about our autopilot than we ever knew before and one absolute surprise finding that we would have completely missed..

Autopilot failing isn't going to sink your boat so it isn't a total disaster, but having to hand steer a boat for days and days at a time is something that we..

Unfortunately our weather window closes up. But it does give us a chance to have an incredible sail down to Georgetown, Bahamas...

Sailing Turtle faces a challenging day at sea, dealing with a damaged traveler and unexpected mishaps. Join the journey through adversity and solutions. 🌊⛵

We go over all the items in our med kit that we specifically use for various types of cuts and lacerations as well as burn injuries.

While we wait for our traveler to get delivered, we decide to tackle an issue that's been a bother for a while. But that means going high. Very very high.

As we wrap up some much overdue projects with the limited materials we have on the boat, we get news that our traveler finally gets here.

First our traveler was broken, then the weather windows kept changing and disappearing. So we've got to make some tough decisions about what we want to do next

Our grand tour of the Caribbean starts off on an island that all of our cruiser friends had told us to skip but few had ever been to.

In our fourth episode of our Medical Mondays series, we take a look at medications. Grab your med kit and compare how many of these you have!

This time about finding ourselves as sailors, finding our comfort levels and figuring out if this whole full time cruising life is for us.

10 Years ago, if you told either of us that we'd be celebrating our anniversary while traveling the world on our own boat, I would have laughed and laughed and called you nuts. Our love story is one that spans 27 years and this story is about two people, s...

After more than a MONTH in Turks and Caicos and loving it more than we ever thought we would, we catch on to a less than perfect weather window to head to another country we thought we'd be skipping originally, Dominican Republic. Weather forecasts call fo...

As hurricane season is knocking, we try to finish up our last jump to Curacao where Turtle would be hanging out for the season while we traveled by air to various countries. Well, like all best laid plans, our 72 hour "easy" sail to Curacao turns into a 74...

After one of the most harrowing 74 hours of our sailing lives, we now buckle down to figure out our engine problems but also our plans for Turtle. --------- We are Dev (pronounced Dave) and Spandana (pronounced Spun-The-Nuh), a software engineer and devel...

With a jump from NYC to Iceland, we start our 3 month long vacation away from our home Turtle. What was supposed to be a quick stop before our European vacation turns out to shock and humble us into a new understanding of what beauty is. And also what it m...

From the glaciers and waterfalls of Iceland, we jump over to Europe and hop onto a Locaboat canalboat to cruise around the tributaries of the Garonne River for two weeks! Europa 400: https://www.locaboat.com/en/boats/europa/e400/ Our Route: https://www.l...

After an incredible time along the rivers of France, we jump over to the French Riviera with some friends and sail around on a TRIMARAN! --------- We are Dev (pronounced Dave) and Spandana (pronounced Spun-The-Nuh), a software engineer and developmental ...

Back in Costa Rica for some medical check ups, we hit on a few health related surprises and while we cope with that, we take a trip over to The Chocolate School (link below) and get an absolutely incredible education on the history and use of chocolate. C...

3 months of travel turned into 6 months. Simple check ups turned into disasters. ER visits into admissions. But FINALLY. We GET TO GO HOME.

Just in time we get our lights up, get our Christmas dinner cooked up in our air fryer and get in some video games with our nieces! From our home to yours, we wish you all happy holidays!!

FINALLY! We are BACK on Turtle! After being away for 6 LONG months we finally find ourselves home on our sailboat in the Dominican Republic. Finding her safe after having had no hurricanes touch her through out the season, we set to getting her back on her...

The last time we tried this, it was a a disaster ending with the navy/armada of the Dominican Republic dragging us back into DR! This time is different. While a full bash was expected as we take part in the last part of the thorny path, we are in a for a B...

Being Alone on Turtle really puts into perspective quite a few things. One, safety of being alone on the boat on a new island really comes to light and I make some needed changes about that. Second, everything takes SO much longer without a partner to help...

All boat projects start off with the best of intentions and highest of hopes. But sometimes, when you're deep enough to a project to see it for it will really be, you have to be ready to walk away. --------- We are Dev (pronounced Dave he/him) and Spandan...