Well, Panama. We’ve been here a little over a week now, resting up and preparing for our canal transit. That will be happening this Thursday (and maybe Friday too, depending on whether we get a 1- or 2-day transit assignment,… Continue Reading →
We enjoyed our time in Aruba but were very happy when a weather window opened up for us to make the passage to Panama. We have already booked flights to fly from Panama City to Atlanta to spend the holidays… Continue Reading →
Something a bit different this week: Kim made an appearance as a guest on a sailing podcast! Cool! The Morning Muster Sailing Podcast is produced by Ben and Teresa Carey of Morse Alpha Expeditions. Morse Alpha is Ben’s and Teresa’s… Continue Reading →
We started our week continuing our time in Bonaire. Sunday was a day to work on some of the recommendations brought about by our rigging inspection. These included replacing our topping lift to the boom and two of our backstays,… Continue Reading →
This past week we spent a day at Washington Slagbaai National Park on Bonaire. It is one of the most incredible places we have yet visited. Rather that describe it in words, we thought we would let photos tell the… Continue Reading →
We arrived in Bonaire one week ago yesterday and we honestly love it here! Bonaire is an island municipality of the Netherlands (like Saba that we also loved!) Bonaire lies off Venezuela’s coast in the southern Caribbean. It is part… Continue Reading →
MADE IT!!! I write this from Bonaire! After 2 months, we finally left Grenada. Grenada was wonderful to us-we completed the boat work we needed to do, had some good food (Indian-yum!), saw the sights, and met some really nice… Continue Reading →
At the moment, we’re just hanging out. We’d like to leave Grenada. We really would. But we can’t. Because… Well, because of two things really. First, we ordered some parts. FIVE WEEKS AGO!!! And they haven’t arrived yet. When I… Continue Reading →
We are successfully back in the water and at anchor – hurray! We had initially estimated that Meraviglia would be out of the water for two full weeks with a splash date to go back in on 10/3. Happily, Bob… Continue Reading →
If you’ve actually been reading these blog posts, you have a pretty good feel for how things have gone for Kim and I since we moved aboard: not that great. There is no denying we’ve had some successes and have… Continue Reading →