There are different ways to travel.  By car, by plane, by foot, by bus.  You get the picture.  But one thing that I've discovered on this trip is that there is nothing quite like arriving in a new country on a sailboat. Before I go any further here, let me start with a caveat: there are … Continue reading Landfall Without a TSA Agent in Sight

We are sailing again!  We departed Grenada on a Leopard 43 catamaran last week and made our way through the Grenadines and up to St. Vincent.  Grenada has been good to us, but boy did it feel good to put the island in our rear view mirror and start our long, slow trip northward. Our … Continue reading Back in the Saddle

“Well, the boat is not sinking,” my friend Chris Rundlett yelled to me over the noise and hiss of the wind and waves. It was 11:30pm and we were a few miles off the west coast of St. Vincent. We were delivering “the boat” in question—a Catana 47 sailing catamaran—from Port Louis, Grenada to Rodney … Continue reading A Sunday Night with the Southern Cross