We rotate watches, I stand watch 9pm to 12am, 6am to 8am, and 12pm to 3pm. It gets dark pretty early, between 7 and 8pm, and the moon gets up somewhere after 9pm. It is pretty. It's hard to get a...
X marks the original anchor site. O marks where we caught up to her. One heart-stopping moment of the trip- when Dunbar and I returned from running errands in Barbados, we realized that one of the...
Irene had to go to Washington D.C. for work so I flew to Barbados, met up with her, and took her place for the last 1600nm or so to Ft. Lauderdale. Oh darn! You can tell I hate having to spend days...
Port St Charles at sunset. Far too beautiful to be real. Bizzy graciously offered us moorage in the beautiful marina of Port St Charles, to charge up our batteries and refill our water tanks. This...
Full moon over Barbados. Edwins flight got in late. Edwin flew into Barbados Saturday night. Dunbar and I took the dinghy in to pick him up at Independence Square. Y’all don’t need pictures of...
Phil Berman (president of Balance Catamarans) introduced us to his friend Captain Ron Williams and his lovely wife Rosalia, and they are most awesome people. Ron and Rosalia own a cat charter...
Land ho! Barbados from about ten miles out. Barbados is the easternmost of the Caribbean islands, in fact it’s technically not in the Caribbean at all but in the western Atlantic. Whatever. It’s...
In the South Atlantic, the trade winds blow pretty consistently from the South-east from the tip of Africa to the equator, southern edge of the Caribbean. So this whole trip has been running pretty...
Tomorrow evening we will arrive in Barbados. From there I shall return to the real world of work and meetings and conference calls, and Edwin will take my place on the crew to take Vingilótë the...