“Duwan, we have a problem. Do you feel good enough to steer for a bit? The mainsail is coming off the mast.” It was about midnight. The wind was blowing over 20 mph, and our boat was bucking like a…
Several years ago I learned that Doc Watson’s family was so poor his father used cat hides to stretch over the heads of banjos. My first thought was ‘Gosh, there IS some use for cats’. But after house-sitting this summer…
Reading Jared Diamond’s ‘Collapse’ this summer prompted me to visualize places as isolated ecosystems. In a way, even though Duwan and I have spent the summer on the dirt, we have been island hopping. Right now we stay in my…
Earlier this year, during our first trip to the Bahamas, I found it a little hard to adjust to life on the boat. When we would watch TV episodes on DVD in the evening, I would devour the details as…
Our maiden voyage on Blue Wing was probably the most amazing thing Greg and I have ever done. I am so glad that we have had the opportunity to share our journey with images and words on this blog. We…
’Get it to the nearest authorized service center immediately!‘ That’s what the Mercury manual says you should do if your outboard motor gets totally submerged. Flash back to Sunset Bay Marina in Stuart. We arrive in the rain to find…
Southern Florida is low, flat, and mucky. If you dig a hole two feet deep you will hit the water table, pulling up fluid as warm as that in the Gulf Stream’s current. But this underground water won’t fuel a…
Deciding to come back to the U.S. took no time at all. Putting together a “loose plan” for our return took a few hours. Actually getting back took many days. First, as you know, we had a period of rest,…
We have been in the Bahamas four months today. Currently we are in White Sound in Green Turtle Cay. When we arrived here on Tuesday it seemed almost deserted with only maybe three or four inhabited boats in the harbor….
Since our guests left our life has slowed back down a little. We have spent a lot of time just lulling around in anchorages writing. The list of things we have to fix right away has grown and subsequently shrunk…
