Sailing Meraviglia

We sail to experience the wonderment over the horizon.

Chapter 134: So You Want to Cross the Panama Canal…

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 →

Chapter 133: Aruba to Panama, Our Longest Passage Yet!

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 →

Chapter 132: Kim’s a Podcaster!!

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 →

Chapter 131: Mast adventures and Aruba!

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 →

Chapter 130: A Photo Journey

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 →

Chapter 129: Beauty in Bonaire

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 →

Chapter 128: The Less Short Passage

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 →

Chapter 127: The One Where We’re a Speedboat

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 →

Chapter 126: Hot times in Grenada with a side of #$%@!

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 →

Chapter 125: Karma Shift!

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 →

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