march 3 2007 : rincon, puerto rico A couple days ago we hit the road and headed for the west coast, Rincon to be exact. The drive from Salinas to Rincon is less than inspiring. It’s a rather flat, dry area, and the roads don’t travel anywhere near the coast … Read More
February 2007
february 2 2007 : charlestown, nevis The passage to Nevis was just a quick overnighter. Our first since the Atlantic. We really prefer an overnight passage to an all day race in the heat of the sun. It was an easy downwind sail most of the night but in the … Read More
January 2007
january 1 2007 : grenada What does the New Year have in store for us? Since our arrival in Grenada that question has been posed to us a thousand times. The end of this sailing adventure is certainly near. And yet, Ali and I are still sort of winging it, … Read More
December 2006
december 2 2006 : atlantic ocean crossing It’s been somewhere around a week now and everything continues to go pretty well. We didn’t have any repeat showing from the crazy Frenchmen. Although two nights later we did see another sailboat about a mile or two in front of us who, … Read More
November 2006
november 2 2006 : lanzarote, canary islands The Canary Islands passage is over. Aside from our problems with the sails there really wasn’t anything to talk about. The engines worked fine as they throbbed away, one after the other, for the entire trip. There was barely any wind, making the … Read More
October 2006
october 1 2006 : costa de sol, spain Thankfully the weather cooperated and did what was predicted, which was to be very light and on the nose. We are now running a mile offshore along the southern coast of Spain. The view is beautiful, with layer after layer of mountain … Read More
September 2006
september 1 2006 : naples, italy We spent all of our second day in Palermo just walking the streets. We checked out a few of the sights around town, most of which were amazing churches or ornate fountains. Around pretty much every corner was something else interesting to look at. … Read More
August 2006
august 1 2006 : bodrum, turkey It’s been sort of a rough month for Ali and I. It seems that when things go wrong on the boat they just come in waves. Yesterday morning we took the dinghy into town. On the way in the outboard broke. It still drove, … Read More
May 2006
may 1 2006 : cairo, egypt, africa This morning we visited the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities which was just a short walk away. This place houses over 136,000 exhibits and is really a pretty amazing place. There are so many artifacts that it has basically become impossible for the museum to … Read More
April 2006
april 2 2006 : asmara, eritrea, africa Yesterday morning we caught a bus to Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, about four hours away. The bus was a small Japanese minibus converted to seat about twenty-five people, a couple of babies, dozens of boxes of salt, possibly some livestock, and whatever … Read More