Part One: Looking back at a family cruise that took them straight into the Cuban revolution (published March 2018) Flying fish and flying spray were keeping […]
Sailing to the Revolution
The Year of the Refit
Boat work means lists, projects and knowing it will all be worth it (published January/February 2018) Switching my electric sander off, I watched dust settle around […]
Galley Guide: Solar Cooking
(January/February 2018) A long, long time ago, on a dock far, far away I had my first taste of solar cooking. It was Baja Mexico in […]
Solar Survival
Bright ideas to keep you going in any situation (published Nov/Dec 2017) Watching the drama unfold as hurricane after hurricane battered the Caribbean and Atlantic this […]
Stop and Go
Making tough decisions to keep the cruising life afloat (published October 2017) Sitting on a pebble beach, I poked our fire with a stick while Jill […]
Ten Years After
What Worked, What Didn’t (published October 2017) After 10 years of cruising, we aren’t going home any time soon. We are on our way across the […]
Sailing Sabbatical
Why I decided to sail around the world after college graduation (published October 2017) Senior year of college is a poignant time, filled with nostalgia and […]
Landfall
The rhythms of daily life change after being at sea for three weeks (published August 2017) On the 21st morning of our passage I […]
Jeanneau 51
(published April 2017) When I woke just after dawn and checked the weather app on my phone, I could see we were in for a storm. […]
Sailing Blue Nun
Circumnavigators downsize to a smaller cruising boat and find themselves asking , “when is small too small?” (published March 2017) Looking back, Frenchman Bay in Downeast […]