Happy New Year, friends! When we left off in November, we were in Grenada, slowly getting back into the swing of liveaboard life. Mel continued to be a translation machine from the boat, and we worked through the never-ending list of boat jobs, including: * replacing our house batteries after frying one of them due [...]
Tag: Boat work
The 2019/2020 Caribbean sailing pre-season!
We leave behind snowy Ontario for two weeks of boat work on the yard.
And we’re in!
The lead-up and follow-up to our long-awaited launch
Facing setbacks
An unforeseen situation delays our launch.
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 [...]
How to launch a sailboat in 31 short steps
The title is pretty self-explanatory