We’re super excited to 1) have my little sister aboard with us and 2) officially leave the dock and move Calico Skies for the first time in MONTHS!! After ...
Calico Skies Sailing
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Grace wanted to visit the mountain highlands of Boquete, Panama since she first saw the immense peaks of Volcan Baru on the horizon and in this episode the ...
We had a good run, this was is our first time leaving Calico Skies in five years of cruising 😂. We decide to go home to visit family and friends in the States ...
We knew the route from Mexico to Panama would require a lot of motoring and that there was always a possibility we would have to divert course to get more ...
We need a break in the trade winds to make easterly progress from Mexico to Panama. On the second day or our passage we find ourselves in pond like conditions ...
The time has come for us to say goodbye... After sailing nearly 30,000 miles together, Grace has decided to not sail this passage and will meet Calico Skies in ...
With two tropical cyclones spinning up within a week it's time for us get moving out of the hurricane zone. The only problem is that we have put ourselves a ...
Well, we made it to Mexico! And that mean's we're officially back to Cruising Life and done with Passage Life, at least until the next time. There are a few ...
The last part of our passage to Mexico was a perfect demonstration of what fighting 25 knots in the Gulf Stream on a 36 foot sail boat feels like . . . Choppy ...
The time to sail has come! Long before we dealt with a broken shackle and jammed halyard we were preparing for this passage. But finally it's time to depart ...
The time has finally come for us to leave the U.S for the foreseeable future and point our bow towards distant shores once more! We are in the Dry Tortugas ...
What do cruiser's do with all of their time? Quite a lot as this episode demonstrates 😉. It starts out with pizza night aboard Delos. We make the dough (from ...
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in the Keys? How about living in a place like the Dry Tortugas, a paradise only accessible by boat and sea plane, ...
In this episode we prepare for a big storm coming with 30 knots expected wind predicted to blow for four straight days. We move anchor spots and then Bill gets ...
It's time to escape the hustle and bustle of Miami and get back into what we regard as "real cruising" or sailing the boat to remote, less main stream ...
Will we be able to run our 16,000 Btu AC off our lithium battery bank?! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep 93)
In this episode we continue the installation of our marine air conditioner. We get right down to it, drilling a sea water exit hole in the hull. Typically this ...
There are two options when heading south down the US east coast, you can take the offshore route which is more exposed to weather but more direct or take the ...
Annapolis seems to have some sort of magnetic pull on us in the late fall 😂, this years challenge is to escape before the first snow falls..can we do it?! ...
They say bad things come in threes.... In this episode we once again find ourselves needing a tow from one of our buddies, SV Avalon. We are becalmed off Cape ...
We seem to make a habit of overstaying our season in each spot we travel to 🙃. Whether it is the sweltering heat of the Bahamas this past June (almost July) or ...
When it rains, it pours! This episode opens with us disconnecting our tow from S/V Delos and getting Calico Skies anchored under power from our dinghy. We ...
We are at the point in our season where we are starting to make our way back south and west after getting within ten miles of the Canadian border. Our first ...
In this episode we decide to throw caution to the wind and sail to the very north eastern tip of Maine, right at the Canadian border. Its late September and we ...