CONCERN about PIRACY on an OPEN OCEAN PASSAGE is unavoidable, even though we all know it's uncommon. We've been seemingly closely followed several times while at sea. When a non-descript power vessel follows your track for hours with no land in sight, how...
7 MONTHS and we STILL haven't FIXED OUR MOTOR. That's because we're considering an UNUSUAL SOLUTION. It'll be a lot of work, much of it custom, but we think ELECTRIC may be the answer. We'll explain why, PLUS it's finally time for us to set sail again. ...
A STERN CONCERT for a GREAT CAUSE and...are our GENERATOR ISSUES OVER?? Plus, waterfalls, a chocolate museum, and a fish market...with Chris and Mary arriving, Loren's birthday upon us, and our departure imminent, we're squeezing in as much of the good st...
LIVING on a 30-year-old CATAMARAN can be EXHAUSTING. We finally hit a point where we NEEDED a change of pace, somewhere on LAND. And since we're in the LAND of CHOCOLATE here in Grenada, what better spot than a CHOCOLATE PLANTATION?! We spend 3 days (an...
LIFE on a 48-foot, 30-year-old CATAMARAN in the CARIBBEAN is a complex thing. We have to WORK EXTRA HARD for some things that most take for granted, BUT the rewards we receive BALANCE it out. GRENADA is a wonderful place to be for a sailing cruiser, even...
WHY did we SAIL THIS FAR? We FINALLY got to GRENADA after 2000 miles and MANY difficulties. Now that we're here, we're still struggling with the generator among many other things. But we're also enjoying the community and a multitude of other benefits o...
Have we FIXED the DEAD MOTOR? Does our GENERATOR RUN YET? We show you WHERE WE ARE in our PROJECT LIST and explain why a CATAMARAN RESTORATION LIST while LIVING ABOARD isn't a linear thing. We also show you exactly WHY we were so HELL BENT on sailing 2000...
We JUST completed a TOUGH UPWIND SAIL to MARTINIQUE from ST. CROIX. We're now a ONE DAY HOP from completing a 4000-MILE ROUND TRIP to GRENADA. We LOVE Martinique, but when a DOWNWIND weather window appears almost as soon as we arrive, we know we've gotta...
We discover HIGH WATER in our ENGINE ROOM on a ROUGH and WINDY OCEAN PASSAGE. We pump out BUCKETS and continue on, unsure of where the leak is. But this is just one of many challenges passage making presents. We talk about the multiple layers of TRUST t...
SHIFTY WEATHER FORECASTS leave us APPREHENSIVE about out 3-DAY PASSAGE to MARTINIQUE. We could end up in NO MAN'S LAND trying to beat our way back to the WINDWARD ISLANDS. A half day into our voyage, we start getting an UNEASY feeling and find ourselves ...
Not just ONE, but BOTH our GENERATORS STOP WORKING as we're ABOUT TO LEAVE for ST. MARTIN less than 2 WEEKS after ERIC's HOSPITAL STAY. With limited CHARGING our LITHIUM BATTERIES start to DIE. It's a scramble to get ANY GENERATOR working well enough to ...
EMERGENCY ROOM then 5 DAYS in the HOSPITAL. In the CARIBBEAN, with NO INSURANCE for the area, it's a NIGHTMARE for SAILORS. WHAT HAPPENED and WHAT WILL WE DO NOW. Enjoy!! And be sure to SUBSCRIBE for WEEKLY CONTENT EVERY SUNDAY! Cheers!!
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1700 MILES UPWIND from the US to the VIRGIN ISLANDS in JUNE with only ONE FUNCTIONING MOTOR and the other JUST FIXED? It's a plan we NEVER STRAYED FROM for various reasons. While the vast majority of viewers were incredibly supportive, a SMALL FEW were V...
There have been FIXES, FAILURES, UPGRADES, and FUN since we SAILED 2000 MILES to Charleston over 6 months ago. 1500 ADDITIONAL MILES later, we're in SAN JUAN and FINALLY finishing up a LIFE CHANGING project we started back in Charleston. And the NEW PROJ...
It feels like a MIRACLE that we're BACK in the CARIBBEAN, but already we have ANOTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE - one that we HAVE TO FIX before we leave here. But what an AWESOME PLACE to be stuck! San Juan has been a HUGE FAVORITE of ours since our first visit...
It's 500 MILES UPWIND and AGAINST CURRENT from Mayaguana to the VIRGIN ISLANDS, with an EVER CHANGING WEATHER FORECAST at the WRONG TIME OF YEAR. It's our LAST LEG to finally return to the CARIBBEAN after a VERY long year. Whatever the wind brings us, we...
We're in the MIDDLE OF THE BAHAMAS and FIGHTING our way EAST before making the BIG LEAP to the VIRGIN ISLANDS and ultimately GRENADA before HURRICANES start marching across the Atlantic. But the winds are NOT agreeing with us and we seem to be going the W...
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