words from the wanderers

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...

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...

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...

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...