Cayuse

After a couple of days in Ostia, we sailed pass the town of Anzio.  Marsha’s dad participated in the Battle of Anzio in WWII. He was shot in the hip during the invasion and received the Purple Heart. The battle started in January 1944 and the Allies ousted the Germans from Rome by June 1944. […]

We left Pinarellu and motored around the point to Porto Vecchio to check out of France. We anchored in the upper bay, which is well protected. Porto Vecchio has a really nice old town on a hill overlooking the bay. We left the next morning for Rome and sailed all night across the Tyrrhenian Sea […]

After leaving Saint-Florent, we sailed around the north end of Corsica to the port city of Bastia to pick up of 2 of Haley’s friends from Wake Forest, who spent 3 days on the boat with us. Bastia is where many ferries from mainland France and Italy arrive. People, cars, and trucks all move around […]

Words and photos by Haley After the Outremer cup and days of preparation and provisioning, we finally left La Grande Motte for Corsica! Our first stop on the journey to Corsica was the Iles de Porquerolles, a small group of islands between Marseilles and St. Tropez. The trip was an all-day sail, so we woke […]

We arrived in La Grande Motte in late May and sailed in the 2017 Outremer Cup, which is 3 days of racing with 20 other Outremer catamarans.  The wind was light all 3 days, but the boats sail really well in light air.  Marsha, Haley and I had great time sailing with a guy from […]

After we finished our shakedown cruise on the new Cayuse, Marsha, Cameron, and Travis flew from Paris to Nairobi to Lilongwe in Malawi.  They spent 2 weeks raveling around the country building libraries with the with the Good Steward Global Initiative.

Our first shakedown cruise on the new boat went well.  We did not do too much damage to the crew or the boat.  The crew was Marsha, Travis, Cameron, and me.  We left La Grande Motte on Friday morning.  It was blowing about 18 knots when we left the marina.  We headed out around the […]