The Prediction Two years ago, my sister-in-law and I were strolling along the streets of Portland, Maine. Dan and I had sailed Equus up the East Coast to Maine. We had the great fortune of arriving in Portland the same two weeks my family was there on vacation. Kathleen and I may have popped…
Two years into our ten-year circumnavigation, we have learned that future plans are about as solid as the shifting sand of an hourglass. We do our best to research and plot our travel based on weather, seasons, tides, and advice from more experienced sailors. We understand the best-charted plans of sailors can be…
It’s been months since I’ve written a blog post. We took a winter break from our sailing life and traveled to the United States to be with our family and friends over the holidays. While we love our adventures and our decision to sail around the world, our family is very important to us. We…
Lately, I’ve not been sleeping well. I feel rather run down and attributed it to the crazy and unpredictable lifestyle we have living on a sailboat. However, as I have been researching how food impacts your body, I have come to a realization that while our diet is fairly decent, there is a lot…
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu We had no intention of laying our boat up for the winter in Northern Ireland, yet, here we are. If we have learned one important lesson about sailing around the world, it’s that you can’t really make plans. You sketch…
One of the topics I have yet to address in my blog posts is the importance of good health. Living full time on a boat is actually quite physically demanding. We walk up and down our companionway stairs, climb on and off the boat into the dinghy (sometimes in rough weather). There is a lot…
“To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.” Carlton Mitchell It was with great anticipation that we sailed the 900-mile stretch from the Azores to the…
Normally, I write a blog post once a month. I can incorporate and consolidate stories and pictures into a single post. After our day on Whibby Island, I had so many pictures and stories to tell that I had to sit down immediately and try to recreate the sights and stories we encountered on this…
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” Herman Melville There is only one certainty when completing an ocean passage. Nothing will go as expected. From the first day you set out, you can pretty much throw all expectations out…
Sailing to the Azores has been one of the highlights of our sailing adventure thus far. We have experienced the beauty of the American and British Virgin Islands, and while the Bahamas, Cuba, Bermuda, New England, were all spectacular in their own way, the Azores brought us to a new level of awe. The Azores…