Cruising dosen't leave a lot of time for writing, oddly enough - and so a lot of the writing I did never got posted ( Read more... )

I have to admit to a bit of a phobia - call it nowindpassagaphobia-with a side helping of North Swell ( Read more... )

We are currently anchored in a modest rocking swell, not very far from a forbidden island ( Read more... )

Today has been a strange day ( Read more... )

Now that I have been living on a boat again for over a month, I'm reflecting on the nature of living aboard and cruising. For all the hype in magazines, living on a cruising sailboat with no income - having disposed of the job from which said income originates, is a bit like many of the other extreme lifestyle choices people make, and subsequently ( Read more... )

This has been a hectic day. We sailed mostly downwind from West end Tortola to Cruz Bay St. John. Cruz bay is like a ( Read more... )

It is a fairly calm morning in Sopers Hole. Yesterday we went on our last inland expedition into Tortola. We caught an expensive cab first to the chandlery in Nanny Cay, and then another into Road Town. The Chandlery had a couple things that I needed, but not everything. One thing on the list was a new pressure pump for the stern shower. The ( Read more... )

Sopers Hole, BVIs ( Read more... )

We left the rolly but well provisioned embrace of the aptly named Fat Hogs Bay yesterday and picked up an illicit mooring at Cooper Island. Cooper Island seems to be the place where the party happens for Charter boats. I had seen this little bay from across the Francis Drake Channel and wondered about the mass of masts on the horizon - seemingly ( Read more... )

The winds have picked up again. The last few days in Trelis bay have been the more typical idyllic coditions that I remember from my previous stays here with the sea Munchkin. Our bug-bites are slowly fading into obscurity and the grit and grime of the boatyard is slowlly being forgotten. We made a beaurocratic and shopping run across the island ( Read more... )