After a break for the holidays we return to the boat and get prepared for our winter season. We make a few hops down the Florida coast then head for the Berry Islands in the Bahamas!
The first island chain we will visit in the Bahamas is the Berry Islands...
After spending time ashore with family and friends it is time to get back to our life on the water! We are always a bit anxious when returning to Frolic as we never know if she will be as we left her. After seeing what happened in our absence we launch i...
Here is the second half of our summer in Maine. We travel Downeast to Roque Island to our favorite northern beach, have some family aboard, do a lot of hiking and enjoy the beautiful Maine coast from the water and ashore.
We arrive in Penobscot bay and begin exploring the wonderful towns and islands in the area. We visit Rockland, Camden, Belfast and Castine as well as the islands of Vinalhaven, Isleboro, Deer, Swan's, Isle Au Haut, North Haven, Hurricane and a few others.
Part 2 of our time in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. We check out one of the historic mansions in Newport, go to a lobster bake at Cuttyhunk, and spend some time with whales off Cape Cod.
The Meri Crew heads north for the summer. We get Frolic ready to go in Annapolis and then head to New England. After a two day, two night passage we arrive in Cuttyhunk Island., our favorite place in New England. We also spend time at New Bedford and Bl...
Our season in the Bahamas draws to a close. We spend a week at Manjack Cay in the Abacos where we have a beautiful beach, miles of great reef to dive and few neighbors. With a last minute change of plans we set sail north leaving the Bahamas for North Ca...
Hurricane Dorian pummeled the Abacos in September 2019 and last year cruisers were encouraged to not visit the Abacos as relief efforts were underway and rebuilding was just getting started. This year we really wanted to cruise through the Abacos to see h...
This is the second half of our time in the Ragged Islands. A big highlight was swimming with a BIG loggerhead turtle. We had had one bump into the boat in the night a few times but we finally caught up to one during the day. He was very friendly and let...
The Jumentos and Ragged Islands are an isolated island chain in the Bahamas arcing for about 70 miles generally southwards and situated south of the southeast end of the Exuma chain. The current resident population of the whole island chain is 56 people, ...
We take a fairly quick trip over from the Exumas to Long Island and explore the north end of the island. Doug gets a really nice lobster spear fishing. We discover the Broken Bridge Bar and Grill, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. And we see the green...
We finish out our time in the Exumas for winter 2021, at least for a while. We may be back. We have more great time doing our big three activities in the Exumas - snorkeling, hiking and kiteboarding. The first frontal system we have had since Florida bl...
Hello everybody. We are having a great time cruising Frolic through the Northern Exumas. We do a bit of hiking, snorkeling and kiteboarding at several spots and have some great sailing in between.
Sorry to hear about the big storm pummeling the US. For...
Its January 2021 and we are back aboard Frolic. We undertake a big project, replacing two of our solar panels with larger more efficient panels as well as upgrading the wiring and electronics. Then we set sail, first down the ICW to West Palm Beach, the...
The Meri Crew sails offshore from VA to FL. We leave Hampton VA where the weather is getting downright cold and head south on the Atlantic ocean. After a four day passage we arrive in Florida where it is shorts and T-shirt weather. Along the way we have...
The Meri Crew sails the Chesapeake Bay and Rhode Island - Summer 2020.
We continue our summer adventures cruising up the Chesapeake Bay and then take an ocean passage to Rhode Island.
Frolic travels from Florida to the Dismal Swamp 2020. We start our summer of 2020 cruising by getting Frolic back in the water. In this video we travel from Florida as far as the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.
The Meri Crew finishes up in the Exumas and sails to Florida 2020. We have a last week of adventures in the Exumas including going deep into a cave and swimming in a subterranean pool full of stalagmites! Then we visit the very remote Green Cay where we ...
We spend more time in the central and southern Exumas. We have friends John and Tricia visit and have some great experiences like swimming with sharks, spending a day on a beautiful deserted beach, and sailing with our big beautiful spinnaker for the firs...
The Meri Crew sail on Frolic to the Exumas in January 2020. We leave from Florida and make a few stops in places we haven't been before, Great Harbor in the Berry Islands and Morgan's Bluff on the north end of Andros Island. Then we stop in at Nassau to ...
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