Month: May 2016

Passages. Love them or hate them, sometimes they are necessary for getting from Point A to Point B. Prior to our afternoon departure from the BVIs to St. Martin through the Anegada Passage (aptly nicknamed the OhMyGodAaaah! Passage by sailors who have experienced its stomach-churning turbulence – I puked three times), I was chatting online with a friend from Brooklyn. He asked me, “What happens when you sail at night? How do you sleep?” These questions made me realize how little I’ve shared about the practical ways we deal with passages. We’re hardly experts, but we’ve experienced these longer-form trips enough times...