Articles tagged with 'antigua'

It's time to leave this comfortable part of the Caribbean in search of new places. We stayed another ten days in Antigua to host our son Eric for a well-deserved vacation from his professional life in Los Angeles working in the film industry. Now, we all agree it's time to move on and make some progress on our circumnavigation.

An elegant waterfront view at a place called Paparazzi, our table is a jumble of various menu selections: arancini, zuppetta, insalata di polipo, a margarita pizza, Sicilian wine, then the owner stops by and the conversation in Italian goes into high gear, but we're not in Italy, we're in English Harbor. There is a bit of trickery going on here, but the Caribbean is like that, just...

This video is about the second passage of our world circumnavigation starting in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands in December of 2014. By the time we approached the Cabo Verde Islands, our trade winds across the Atlantic died off and we stayed for 4 days in Mindelo over Christmas before the winds built back in. It was then a fast and furious sail across to Antigua taking just a little...

OK, the stop-over in Mindelo was very nice and the crew had wonderful food and fun for Christmas but... it's time to continue on with the passage to the Caribbean. The reason for stopping in Cabo Verde was due to the winds dropping off to almost nothing across the entire Atlantic. Now, that reason is going away as the trade winds are coming back and should be fairly steady for the...

After a rest of five days the crew is ready to take off for the passage to Antigua. As noted in another post, Art will be staying behind in Lanzarote to mend a broken rib and will fly to join up with the yacht in Antigua. We'll look forward to happy reunion with both Art and Carmen in time for New Year's Eve. Like last year, Feelin' Good will be out to sea for Christmas so be sure to...

We had such a good time looking at all the beautiful classic yachts during the Antigua Sailing Week and the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. This regatta began back in the 60's when charter captains challenged each other to a race at the end of the charter season before they headed back across the Atlantic to Europe. It's grown into a wonderful event that usually sees 50-60 yachts...

While sailing around Antigua today from Carisle Bay on our way to an anchorage in Nonsuch Bay on the east side of the island, Murray spotted a whale breaching up ahead of us. We quickly changed course and motored over to see if we could get close enough for some photos. Luckily this male "Humpback Whale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)Humpback_whale was not too worried about our little...

Well, we planned to make it further around the corner today to Deep Bay up by St. John's but when we saw the big boats out racing again we just had to stop and enjoy them one more time. The sail from Nonsuch Bay was a little rough (3m seas and 20-25kts of wind) and we were in a broad reach most of the way with the big swells going under the boat. Nothing we nor Feelin' Good couldn't...