Our Last Night in New York - January 2015
Our Last Night in New York – January 2015

Year 1

:: 26 January 2015 to 26 January 2016 ::

Caribbean Holidays - January 2016
Caribbean Holidays – January 2016

Sail ho!

  • Total Distance Traveled: 4047 nautical miles; 3512 miles; 5652 km
  • Longest Distance Accomplished (as a crow flies) in a Calendar Month: 497 nm in March 2015 – Crooked Island, Bahamas to Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
  • Shortest Distance Accomplished (as a crow flies) in a Calendar Month: 1 nm in September 2015 – Prickley Bay, Grenada to Mount Hartman Bay, Grenada
  • Most NorthWestern Point: 26º39’900N,077º06’700W, Great Guana Cay, 01 February 2015
  • Most SouthEastern Point:  11º18’341N, 060º 31’693W, Tobago, 22 October 2015 

Oh the Places We Will Go!

  • 11 countries: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, St Kitts, Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia and US, French and Dutch territories  (NB:  Does not include BVI and Turks & Caicos, both of which we moored off of for 12 hours but didn’t touch land or check in.)
  • 41 islands: 12 Bahamian islands (Elbow Cay, Man of War Cay, Great Guana Cay, Eleuthera, Norman Cay, Hawksbill Cay, Waderick Wells, Staniel Cay, Conception Island, Crooked Island, Acklin Island, Plana Cay, Mayaguana), Dominican Republic, 6 Puerto Rican islands (Mainland Puerto Rico, Gilligan’s Island, Isla Caja de Muertos, Vieques, Culebra, Culebrita), St Thomas, St John, St Maarten, St Barths, St Eustasis, St Kitts, Nevis, Guadeloupe, Iles des Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, Bequia, Carriacou, Grenada, Tobago, Sandy Island, St Vincent, Tobago Cays, Mayreau, Mustique, St Lucia
  • Nights Underway at Sea: 18 (My favorite! Read all about it. May 2016 have more!)
  • Nights at Anchor or on a Mooring: 250  (My second favorite.  Read all about it.)
  • Nights Docked at a Marina: 44 (including 31 in Grenada for boat work)
  • Nights on Land: 53 (including 10 in Hope Town before we left, 42 in New York and Michigan during hurricane season, and 1 in a hotel in the Dominican Republic)  (Hoping to camp some in 2016!)
  • Longest stay: 124 days in Grenada (02 June 2015 – 11 June 2015; 22 July 2015 – 19 October 2015; and 28 October 2015 – 21 November 2015)
  • Shortest stay: 7 hours anchored at Isla Caja de Muertos off of Puerto Rico, 03 April 2015 (Makes me tired just remembering it….)

Visitors

Our First Fish!
Our First Fish!

1 Fish Caught! 07 January 2016 off of Portsmouth, Dominica

2 Whale Sitings! 13 March 2015 off of Turks & Caicos; and 15 January 2016 off of Guadeloupe

 

 

7+ Dolphin Sitings! 13 February 2015 off of Eleuthera; 29 March 2015 in the Mona Passage; 31 May 2015 off of Carriacou; 20, 22 and 24 October 2015 off of Tobago; 02 January 2016 off of Martinique; maybe more

4 overnight visitors: Bill and Linda Delisky in the Bahamas, February 2015; Deke in USVI, April 2015; Kendra in the Grenadines, November 2015

12 day sail visitors: Bill and Linda Delisky, Frank and Barbara Siepker and Bobbie and Ed Collins in the Bahamas, February 2015; Skirt, Sleeves, Stacey and Aaron in USVI, April 2015; John and Ashley of s/v Baby Blue in Grenada, August 2015

Fun

Thank you for traveling with us.  We are looking forward to many more nautical miles of adventure!

Year One

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3 thoughts on “Year One

  1. “The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.”

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