I Still Don’t Like the Anegada Passage
You may recall that the Anegada Passage was never my fave. And so, the very thought of taking the pups on their first overnight sail through it was making me feel ill.
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Category: The Glamorous Yacht Life
The Glamorous Yacht Life: Every Sailor in St. Martin Has a Solution to My Cockroach Problem
The other day, as we made ready to leave St. Martin for St. Barts, I stuck my face down in the bilge (compartments under the floorboards, below the waterline) to inspect our water tank and noticed something moving just inches...
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How We Survived The Anegada (OhMyGodAaaah!) Passage
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!...
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The Glamorous Yacht Life: Running Aground
Tuckered out from the festivities of the 5F, we raised our sails early the following morning and waved goodbye to Little Farmer’s Cay. Another cold front was headed our way, and we’d selected a less traveled spot called Pipe...
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The Glamorous Yacht Life: Boat Projects Off the Grid
Things break on boats all the time. We knew this getting into it. Our eyes were wide open. We aspire to be the kind of sailors who can fix our own boat with confidence. Each time something breaks, we’re adding new skills to...
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The Glamorous Yacht Life: Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
Of all the resources we carry aboard to keep the crew alive and the boat afloat, fresh water is the one we think about most on a daily basis. Back in the US, where water was free of charge and easily obtained at any fuel dock,...
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Regrets… I’ve Had a Few
As we move on into our third week on the hook in St. Augustine, each day of our extended stay feels like penance for some poor decisions we made while outfitting our boat for cruising. Admitting that those carefully researched,...
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Life on the Hard
“We’ll wrap up the work in a week, tops”, Brian’s words, as we watched our boat be hauled out from the water and placed atop supports in the Deltaville Boatyard. Tucked in with a hundred other vessels, Nightingale Tune and crew...
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Where are we now?
