After spending time with family, we head to Montserrat for St. Patrick's Day!
Category: Sailing
Gorgeous Guadeloupe
To get February off to a fresh start, we decided to leave Antigua and begin making our way down to Guadeloupe. We were on somewhat of a strict schedule, as Mel's mom was arriving in Point-à-Pitre on the 7th, and we wanted to get there in good time to scope things out. We left Jolly [...]
There’s something about Antigua…
We arrived in Antigua at 7:30 p.m. on January 8, exhausted and wind burnt after a grueling 13-hour passage from Nevis. We had been warned that this passage was less than ideal, with tradewinds right on the nose for the 50 miles between the two islands. But we did it anyway. We were out of [...]
Caribbean boating misadventures – St. Barts, St. Kitts and Nevis edition
There's a little bit of everything in this post, including drinks with Trudeau!
How to launch a sailboat in 31 short steps
The title is pretty self-explanatory
Pre-launch life in St. Martin
In case you were wondering what our life has looked like for the past few weeks.
Day 1 in St. Martin
Dear friends, Thank you *again* for all your messages over the past few weeks asking how things were going with the boat. We are sorry for making you wait so long to hear about what we are up to in St. Martin, but as you can imagine, an internet connection down here can sometimes be [...]
Ottawa-Antigua-St. Martin
Dear friends, It's been an interesting week and a half since we left Ottawa. We've laughed, we've cried and we've started drinking like proper sailors. But most importantly, we've seen our boat, i.e. our home for the next 10 months. Because our flight to St. Martin was cancelled a month ago, WestJet offered to get [...]
Where the Wind takes us 