Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest hurricanes on record, made landfall on the northern-most islands of the Caribbean on September 6th, 2017. Irma marched mercilessly across Barbuda, St Barths, St…
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Onboard Ruby Rose Several friends have asked about the transition from life in bricks and mortar, to life afloat: ” How do we cope?” being the commonest. So here are…
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Meeting our onboard power requirements is a constant balancing act. We spend much of our time considering how we are going to power all our electronics onboard our boat, and…
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Although we revel in the splendid isolation of sailing, we also want and need to communicate with the outside world. Whether it’s for weather updates, uploading videos and posts to…
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At last we’re in America! Arriving in America was kind of crazy. To think we had sailed all the way to the USA from London in our little boat blew…
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Gulf Stream Crossing: Day 1 After much um-ming and ah-ing, we settled on a departure time of first thing Wednesday morning. There was some concern over our eventual arrival time…
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Heading North Through Eleuthera & The Abacos Our weather window for our passage north was approaching so it was time to get, well, north. We hadn’t planned to stop in…
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So I’ve been working on this week’s video and blog while in Charleston, South Carolina- and boy, I really miss the Bahamas! Don’t get me wrong. We are loving the USA.…
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It seems to me that the Bahamas really is a mixture of high highs and equally low lows. This dichotomy is pretty well represented in today’s video and blog. After…
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After an overnight stop in Mayaguana, we start the first of many long day sails to get up to the Exumas. The weather turned and yesterday’s bright blue skies and…
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