Provisioning in Caribbean

Our first Caribbean provisioning experiences unrolled in Bimini in the Bahamas – a series of three islands with 2,000 inhabitants about fifty miles east of Miami. When we found ourselves in need of gas for our propane stove, we asked

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On the Hard

Away She Goes

    It’s a hard, hard life on the hard.       The last place you want to live on a sailboat is on the hard. Sailboats are meant to be water logged, ideally on anchor. They are not

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Close Hauled Down the Thorny Path

(For the non-sailor readers, there is a band around the direction of the wind in which sailing is not possible; that close to the wind the sails do not catch enough wind to propel the boat forward. If a sailboat

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