Sunday we start through the Panama Canal. We will go through with 11 other sailboats. We will be in a raft of 3 boats with Cayuse in the middle. The first day we lock up through the 3 chambers of the Gatun locks into Gatun Lake. The lake is 85 feet above sea level. We […]
After spending 6 days in Santa Marta, we departed at noon on Wednesday for the San Blas islands. The course is 280 miles, but you have to sail northwest for about 40 miles to get offshore far enough to get clear of all the debris in the water from the rivers in Colombia. We saw […]
After starting the first leg in St. Lucia in a driving rain squall, we headed towards our first waypoint off Peninsula de la Guajira in northeastern Colombia, 620 miles west. The wind was blowing from almost due east, which had us jibing downwind for the next 3 days. We stayed below the rhumbline for most […]
The adventure continues!! After a month in Houston, we are back on the boat in St. Lucia. We leave tomorrow for Santa Marta, Colombia about 820 miles across the Caribbean Sea due west and downwind from here. It should be a very boisterous sail. And then we are headed for the San Blas Islands, the […]
We were on the move back to France after dropping the Winters off in Corfu, Greece. We sailed first to Leuca, Italy, and then on to Crotone, Rochelle Ionica, and back through the Straits of Messina. Our timing was good going through the straits. We had both the current and wind with us again. After […]
After Cameron and Travis headed back to Houston, Virginia Hare, a friend of Haley’s from Wake Forest, joined us for few days sailing on the boat. She arrived just as the Bora started blowing. The Bora is a katabatic wind that blows hard from the northeast at times in the northern Adriatic. It blew up […]
We checked out of Montenegro early in the morning and motor sailed to Catvat, Croatia in sloppy seas left over from big winds the night before. We arrived before noon to avoid stronger winds later in the afternoon. We checked into the country and obtained a 30-day cruising vignette, which gives us the ability to […]
The Heikell cruising guide accurately predicted the start of the south-bound current in the Straits of Messina. Fortunately, it started at 0530, which was also sunrise. We had a quick trip through the straits dodging the ferries running over to Sicily. We sailed to Rochelle Ionica on the south coast of Italy. There are few […]
After visiting Pompeii and hiking to the top of Mt. Vesivius, we left Procida and sailed by Capri over to the town of Positano, on the Amalfi coast, where we anchored for one night. It is a beautiful place, but packed with young American couples and students. The anchorage is very rolly (even on a […]
We left Ponza and had a great downwind sail to Isola di Procida jibing the Code D. We were sailing 5 to 6 knots in 8 to 9 knots of breeze. The boat sails very well in light air. Procida is a small island about a mile off the coast from Naples. There have been […]
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