Category: General Boat Life
-
The French Island Dream in St. Barths
Despite the beautiful scenery in Ile Fourchue, we left anchor before noon on February 17th. We set off for Gustavia on the main island of St. Barths, in hopes of a quieter night. The trip was only 5 nautical miles and we got to motor past a lot of amazing super yachts. Once we arrived…
-
Sint Maarten to Ille Fourchue
Once we returned to Sint Maarten from Saba, Doug’s sister Lea met us on February 11th. Unable to find room in a marina there, we anchored in the bay and made many trips back and forth with our dingy as we didn’t all fit! We hadn’t thought of the trouble with small dinghies when we…
-
Side Trip to Saba
We had some time to kill in Sint Maarten while waiting for Douglas’ sister to arrive for a few week visit. We started to look into possible other islands to sail to while we were waiting and came across Saba. After doing some research and talking to some other cruisers who had sailed there in…
-
Sailing to Sint Maarten
We planned the 80 nautical mile crossing from Leverick bay, Virgin Gorda to the Dutch territory of Sint Maarten, with our friends on Blue Mist. This crossing is the longest and most difficult crossing on the way to Grenada from the Virgin Islands. The difficulty lies in the fact that it gets wild in poor…
-
Cruising, (and waiting) in the Virgin Islands
What was supposed to be a brief stop in St Thomas USVI on January 21st, turned into a week – long waiting game due to poor traveling weather. Every day the wind screeched through the anchorage at Charlotte Amalie as we watched other boats leave the harbor and bob up and down like tops, or…
-
Exploring Culebrita!
We ended up spending almost a week waiting for a weather window to leave the marina at Las Palmas on the east coast of Puerto Rico. We were excited to continue on and explore more places! Once the weather settled down, on January 20th, we set out for our favorite Puerto Rican island, Culebrita! The…
-
Exploring Puerto Rico by Land
After spending a great time at home with family and friends for Christmas and New Year, I flew back to Puerto Rico to meet up with our daughter Gabryel. Douglas stayed another week in Nova Scotia to wrap up his work. The property around the marina is a well developed condo resort and golf course…
-
Cruising Around Puerto Rico
We stayed at the marina in Puerto Real on the west coast of Puerto Rico for a few days getting caught up on boat projects that we needed to be on land for. One of those projects was re-doing the splice between our anchor chain and the rope part of our rode. I had been…
-
Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico
Good weather winds are hard to get between DR and Puerto Rico, so we decided to do the trip in one go, 250 nautical miles. We heard from other people about how hard this trip is and how wild the Mona passage between the two countries can be for months. We were worried about it…
-
Hurricane Season in Luperon Dominican Republic
We arrived in Luperon on May 11th, pretty exhausted from the passage from Turks. We had to deal with checking in at immigration which meant an immediate trip into town. The noise was disorientating after being up all night – motorcycles, music, chickens, dogs, and people speaking in Spanish. I had been using Duolingo to…