Category: Cruising

  • Mending

    Along with the cooking and cleaning and other boat chores a new and increasingly important task has presented itself. Mending, now mending has historically been a task done as a practical way to continue utilizing clothes and other fabric items which would otherwise be rendered useless due to wear. As a child my mother showed…

  • Jekyll Island South – Migratory Path of the Cruisers

    After the shuttle went off we headed again down the ICW to hang with our friends boat S/V Ishmael. They were behind us when we went outside but passed us when we waited for the shuttle launch. We caught up with them at Vero Beach, Florida. As we came into the Vero Beach Municipal Marina…

  • A Night to Remember

    The reason we were so eager to get to Cape Canaveral, some of you may already know, is to watch the Shuttle Endeavor take off.  As one of only a few launches scheduled before the program is to be decommissioned in 2011 and the last night launch we were eager to catch it if we…

  • Back Outside – The Perfect Trip

    We decided to go outside again. In addition to the bridge I wrote about in the post “10 Miles Without an Accident” there were six more bridges the next day. With all the wind and a tide range of between 6 and 8 feet there were many complex issues to deal with at each one.…

  • 10 Miles No Accidents

    Have you ever been to an industrial site and seen the signs that say “103 days no accidents. Safety first.”? I feel like we should make a sign for the boat that says “10 miles no accidents”. We transited from Jekyll Island to an anchorage just beyond Jekyll Island where we anchored for the night.…

  • Let Them Make Cake

    Now that we have left Jekyll Island and are underway again there are some marked changes in the crews activity. No longer can the kids jump off the boat onto the dock and find someone to play with. No longer do they have the option to withdraw from family life and select someone closer to…

  • New Water Out the Portholes

    New water out the portholes, finally. Well our month at Jekyll Island Georgia is over. Never, would we have thought that we would be at the same marina for that long. Especially Jekyll Island, it’s really not that big of an island! We originally stopped for only one day but then when the weather was…

  • Lazy, Slothful but Happy

    Okay, so perhaps there are those of you out there that are concerned. Wondering where in the world is the sailboat Passages?! Surely the Internet isn’t so terrible that they can’t have posted anything in nearly a month. Okay here come the confession (in case you didn’t read the title) Lazy, Slothful and Happy… well…

  • False Start

    All of yesterday we prepared to leave the dock. We arrived at Jekyll Island exactly a week ago. At the time we were only planning on staying here 1 or perhaps 2 days. We did however find lots of other friendly cruisers with lots of kids. Our kids had a plethora of other kids to…

  • Enough is Enough

    Alright I’ve tried not to complain, in fact I’ve tried not to even mention this but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It’s frigging cold. Yes perhaps you have noticed on the front page of CNN’s web page this morning that there is an abnormally low temperature system that is pervasive in the Southeast. It’s all true, that…