Articles tagged with 'provisions'

After sailing around the Caribbean for the winter, we are ready to complete the Atlantic Circuit and return to Europe. This is a passage that sailors have been making for hundreds of years and we're excited to be joining that group. Last November we met with the ARC group in Las Palmas di Gran Canaria to make the crossing to the Caribbean along with 250 other yachts. You can read...

Four guys, one boat, 14-30 days at sea crossing the Atlantic. Toss in the fact that one is British, one from Sweden and two of us from the Italian part of Switzerland. Different backgrounds, cultures and first languages. How do you feed this crew for the crossing and keep morale high? How much food to buy, where to store it, how to find it when we're underway and how can four guys...

In the many years we spent exploring the Caribbean we'd never made it to St. Bartholemy. During our years of flying, St. Barth's was intriguing but off limits to us as the runway is renowned in the aviation world for being one of the toughest to handle. The French agree as they insist on you taking a course and annual test ride with an instuctor to be able to land there. Without good...

Our charter yacht was waiting for us in this beautiful marina located near the center of the capital city of St. Martin, Marigot. The marina choices in the area include any number of ones located in nearby Simpson Bay however access is more restricted as you can only go in or out of the lagoon at certain times of the day. Marina Ft. Louis proved to be a great location for a number of...