Articles with the topic 'Day Sail'

After some lovely days spent enjoying Moorea, it's time to move on to one of the places that has been on my 'bucket list' for many years... Huahini Hui (and Ita). We prepared the boat last night for an early morning (06:30) departure knowing it would take most of the day to sail the 85 nm.

We arrived last December in Grenada and have enjoyed a wonderful sailing season. For the first time, we started in the southern Caribbean and really enjoyed these Windward islands, even more so than the Leeward ones up to the north. The true flavor of the Caribbean is to be found in the south still and the people are warm and friendly. We've posted about our experiences at most of...

Knowing we wanted to move into a larger boat with more room for guests and crew, I listed our beloved HR-54, Feelin' Good for sale while we were still over in the Caribbean. I wanted to get a jump start on the spring/summer selling season as I thought the market might be a little tough for selling boats. As it turns out, I found a buyer fairly quickly (he was already a HR-54 fan and...

My cousin Murray and his girlfriend Cee came to visit for a while. Murray will be staying on doing the passage back to Europe while Cee just wanted to get some sunshine and sailing in as a respite from winter in the UK. We had a wonderful time cruising all around Antigua and were lucky enough to spot a humpback whale and dolphins. Another highlight was to be able to see some of the...

A wonderful day sail with friends on a beautiful Southern Wind 100RS, Cape Arrow. We sailed from Genoa to La Spezia, Italia. It's March so the weather was a little cool but sunny and the snow on the mountains made this into a very special, picture-postcard day. It was my first time sailing on such a yacht and it was amazing how light the helm was and how fast were were going.

We've been waiting for an opportunity to spend some time with Dunai and her husband, Anders as we missed out on attending their wedding last year and have been looking forward to meeting Anders for the first time. They were both able to take some time off and fly themselves down to the BVI's to spend almost a week with us.

Our friend Maya joins us for a week of sailing here in the Caribbean. It was her first time on a sailboat so we planned to start off easy to see how she would handle it. Despite our best efforts, the first day of sailing ended up being the roughest of her entire time with us! We had 25kts of wind, a sea state of 2+meters and our desired direction ended up having us beat into the wind...

We've spent a lovely few days anchored out at the north end of St. Barths in the Anse de Columbier Bay which is a nature reserve. They have put out a number of nice mooring buoys free of charge to encourage folks to use them instead of anchoring. From what we saw, the local turtle population appreciates it! We snorkeled among them for several days and really enjoyed the reef structure...