Category: Underway

We’ve used all 20 of the Trader Joe’s Almond Milks that I purchased in Annapolis, eaten all of Justin’s brownies, finally finished off the basil cheese, and we opened all of our care package goodies – so it must be time to be “there”.  As if on cue, just like the day prior to arriving

There is a perfect analogy for last night.  It goes like this.  We are driving along in our Infiniti G35 on a nice open freeway, the cruise control is set on 80 mph (yeah we are speeding a little), life is good.  Night falls and unbeknownst to us the freeway ends and turns into a

We got a windshift that we anticipated earlier than expected, and ended up gybing last night in 18-20 knots – the darkness, rolly seas, sleepy offwatch person and breeze always seem to add drama to anything you do on the boat.  This morning, we furled the gennaker, and we are now on the genoa to

The last 24 hours have been remarkable for the lack of anything remarkable so we will make this short.  We’ve had the trifecta of sailing.  Going fast, in the right direction, with a smooth, easy, comfortable motion.  We haven’t adjusted the sails or changed course.  The wind has been constant at 15-20 knots and we

The trip for us has been full of lessons learned, as well as interesting mysteries.  This morning, Justin found another 6-7 inch squid on our deck for me to go pick up (yes, this is the second) – it is completely logical that the flying fish would occasionally end up on our deck (we’ve had

Horta was fantastic – there is much more to see in the Azores than what we had time for.  We will be putting some pictures and video up of our amazing “scooter ’round the island’” trip.  The local cheeses and wines were lovely to taste, as well.  Yesterday, though, we spent the day getting the

We know that we shouldn’t look at our average speed and distance to go to figure out what speed we need to make to arrive in Horta by nightfall.  We know that we should just be happy to have a safe passage and take things as they come.  Justin and I are not exactly experts