J&H

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

Martha’s Vineyard, MA USA … You’d think that in the two weeks since our last update we would have been leading a fun filled, event packed life on our shakedown cruise. Had that been the case there would have no doubt been an update or two along the way, but the reality is the weather

Cape Cod, MA USA … If you spend enough time as a cruising sailor, sooner or later you’ll have to deal with a hurricane or post-tropical cyclone. It’s not like you go looking for trouble, but once in a while trouble comes looking for you.  Hurricane Lee spooled up over two weeks ago off the Cape

Block Island, RI USA … After four years of being stuck in the Chesapeake, first because of the “pandemic” and then because life got in the way of adventure, we are back sailing.  We left the fuel dock in Edgewater, Maryland on Tuesday at noon with fenders, dock lines, a kayak and other gear strewn about

McCall, Idaho USA … Excited to ring in a new year from our winter wonderland here in McCall! We managed to have -15F nights and barely above 0F days, followed by rainy days, all within the span of a week as this season’s crazy winter weather wreaked havoc across the country. Sophia spent tons of

McCall, Idaho We are finally (we hope) looking at the backside of the collective insanity that has put numerous boundaries on our pursuit of happiness in the past two years. The dreaded bat flu felled us well before it was a topic on the nightly news, but worse, it put our plans to return to

Boise, Idaho USA … This update from our 2021 “season” is long overdue … perhaps because we spent so little of it sailing, and instead much of it in “transition” modes. As winter in McCall waned, we did some spring trips to visit family in San Diego and Colorado, but then we were off to

McCall, Idaho USA … When we left Kailani dockside a year ago for the winter in a marina in Virginia, our 2020 cruising plans were still being debated. Our then major news was that our dearly beloved Kailani was for sale, one step of many to prepare for Sophia to start high school in mainstream