J&H

Panama City, Panama Greetings from the Pacific Ocean! We successfully transited the Panama Canal yesterday and are thrilled to be back in the Pacific. The journey yesterday actually started the night before on May 1st at 9:30 p.m., when our three Panamanian line handlers, Tito, Alex and Javier arrived on Kailani to sleep aboard. We […]

Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama Life is full of events which mark moments of growth, challenge, change. A life well-lived is one in which we can find the opportunity in each of these moments to make a difference – to the people in our lives, to the world we live in, and ultimately to our

Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama Now we’ve gone and done it. Early in the evening of March 21st under a nearly full moon we edged Kailani out of Soper’s Hole in the British Virgins and laid a course southwest by west for Panama. This thousand-mile passage is a symbolic, if a not an actual, commitment

Soper’s Hole, Tortola Isl, BVIs We have now been in the BVIs for only 12 days with a steady balance of work hard play hard going on here on Kailani. We have anchored at four different islands, kayaking, swimming and snorkeling each place to size it up for our pending guests. Up by Prickly Pear

Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands Before anyone gets the idea that the PC police should be sent in hot pursuit of a couple of wayward sailors, the Sleeping Indian is a rocky islet just off the entrance to Jolly Harbour in Antigua. We spent the better part of 6 weeks with her sleeping off Kailani’s

Jolly Harbour, Antigua The Pink Dock, a landmark here in Jolly Harbour on the west coast of Antigua has been our home since we returned from the States in early January. The original plan was to have covered a fair amount of this portion of the Caribbean by now but plans being the anathema of

Jolly Harbour, Antigua … Hello from below the tropic line…at last! If you glance at the photos attached to this annual update you will notice a paucity of nautical scenes and might think we had finally succumbed to the unthinkable and swallowed the anchor. But let’s assume that you have proceeded linearly from the recent

English Harbour, Antigua … The 1,730 nautical mile passage from the east coast of the U.S. to the Caribbean this time of year can be difficult.  The tropical hurricane season theoretically ended on November 1 but there are numerous examples of late season storms, including five in the last three years, that didn’t get the memo.  Then

Edgewater, MD USA … Our final leg from Cape May back here to the South River outside Annapolis earlier this month was done entirely under motor since the winds which had battered us about the small anchorage in Cape May completely disappeared.  We fought the ebb current for 55 miles up Delaware Bay and then caught

Cape May, NJ USA … This shakedown cruise has been mostly a series of short sails interspersed with long stretches at anchor hunkered down to avoid a series of tropical and extra tropical cyclonic storms. In the 33 days since leaving our berth in the Chesapeake we have managed to get ashore only nine times.  Block