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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HURRICANE SEASON is HERE. And we're still 1500 MILES from the SAFETY of GRENADA. That means we're MAKING TRACKS through the BAHAMAS. But we're ALSO kicking ...
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We NEVER get bored of DOLPHINS when they greet us on our passages! We feel like they're good luck and hope they see us as at least somewhat of a kindred ...
2000 MILES back to GRENADA, HURRICANE Season is ALREADY UPON US, still only ONE WORKING MOTOR, but we are FINALLY LEAVING. We have faith in OURSELVES and in ...
Can we POSSIBLY BE READY to SAIL 2000 MILES to GRENADA?! We leave the US in TWO DAYS and it DOESN'T SEEM REAL after the TRIALS of the last 9 MONTHS. We OPEN ...
ALL the FRESH WATER we could POSSIBLY NEED - our MOST IMPORTANT UPGRADE so far. We DE-MYSTIFY RO WATER MAKERS and show you EVERY STEP of our CRUISE RO Water ...
One FROZEN motor and one mysteriously DUMPING COOLANT, plus our GENERATOR STILL NOT WORKING. We're DESPERATE to get headed SOUTH BEFORE HURRICANE SEASON, but ...
We have NO PORT MOTOR and NO GENERATOR and it's 30 hours to the ANCHORAGE in ST. AUGUSTINE. With ONE MOTOR BARELY RUNNING, we SHOVE OFF FOR GOOD. Is our LUCK ...
Our FUTURE ON THIS BOAT is IN DOUBT. NEITHER MOTOR is WORKING and our GENERATOR JUST DIED, but we MUST LEAVE THE DOCK IN ONE WEEK. All of this ON TOP of an ...
We've had NUMEROUS CHALLENGES and UNEXPECTED ISSUES since we bought this boat 9 MONTHS AGO. Could it be we simply ANGERED THE GODS by not properly RENAMING ...
It's TIME TO LEAVE, but we have NO WORKING MOTORS and NO COCKPIT COVER, and our DOCKSIDE TO-DO LIST is continuing to PILE UP as fast as we mark things off. We ...
It's TIME to LEAVE, but we discover BOTH MOTORS are UNUSABLE, possibly BEYOND REPAIR. As we struggle to determine IF WE CAN FIX THEM, we PUSH ON with the ...
Using a PILE of OLD STAINLESS PARTS, plus assorted NEW TUBING and HARDWARE, and some INGENUITY, we're BUILDING a MASSIVE NEW AWNING FRAME for our PRIVILEGE ...
CURRENT, WIND, and WAVES are POUNDING us AGAINST THE DOCK. We struggle to PROTECT THE BOAT. INSIDE, the restoration continues with NUMEROUS SMALL PROJECTS ...
We NEED a LITHIUM HOUSE BANK, but we CAN'T AFFORD $10,000 on BATTERIES. CHINS brand lithium from AMAZON are HALF to a THIRD OF THE COST as major brands. We ...
There's a TON of WATER in our NACELLE...NOT what we wanted to find upon returning. A ROUGH 1500-Mile PASSAGE left us with a boat in DISARRAY, so we begin the ...