A fabulous day — we all were up early. While Karen and Kerry took a morning dinghy ride, Ron and I were hiking up the extremely steep mountainside, checking out the resident goats scrambling about on the hillside fields, and taking in the amazi…
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USVI to Soper’s Hole, West End, Tortola!
Friday morning we cruised over to the British Virgin Islands in 3’-5’ seas, light easterly winds under sunny skies — what is not to like? We vacillated between anchoring at St. John’s in Cinnamon Bay or going over to the BVI, before deciding to …
Touring Charlotte Amalie with Friends Aboard
Equinox on anchor with all the sailboats in Charlotte Amalie Harbour, St. Thomas, USVIRon and I now have our friends Karen and Kerry from Concrete Idea aboard with us! They arrived late Wednesday evening, and we spent Thursday walking about St. Thomas,…
Landfall: St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands!
A mere three hours from the Spanish Virgins, we arrived in Charlotte Amalie Harbour, St. Thomas on Sunday morning. We’d left early yet again, and enjoyed an easy passage once again. But what a difference an anchorage makes!! After the glorious solitu…
Spanish Virgins: Cayo de Luis Pena!
We left just before dawn on the overcast morning of January 20th, to take advantage of the light winds and calmer seas as we headed east. It was spectacular to slip out of the harbor beneath the looming promontory of El Morro, then head east along the …
Boat maintenance in exotic locations, once again!
Well, after our excursion through the Old Town of San Juan, we returned to the boat and did a lot of needed chores. Ron did an oil change on the mains, put in fresh pencil zincs in the engines and hydraulic tank reservoir, while I did a major cleaning …
Castillo de San Felipe del Morro!
The rugged Puerto Rico coastline on the way to Old Town San JuanWe hopped on our bikes this morning and went over to the Old Town of San Juan, built on the point of land overlooking the east entrance to San Juan Bay. Inside its walls, there are over 40…
Landfall: San Juan, Puerto Rico!
After two months of relaxation and fun in Provo, Turks and Caicos, we have moved on! We used the weather window we were given — not as beautiful as some of the others we let go past, but our guests who came aboard or were visiting on island were our p…
Waiting on the Weather…
Stark beauty of the Caicos Bank with rain storms on the horizon…but only for a day! We sat out the rainy day aboard; winds were whipping up the waves on the bank so it was sloppy and nasty out. We took a rainy day rest day — no boat projects either….
Weather windows
Windows open, windows close, and…windows slam shut! How quickly things can change! We’d optimistically hoped the weather would cooperate as initially forecast to allow us to head farther south this weekend, but …. no. The weather window was merely …
