This season has been full of adventure. My first offshore sail. Ocean deliveries of awesome boats. The Marion to Bermuda race. Overnight distance races. Some great heavy wind days. Resume building and experience wise it’s been an exceptional season. It’s been so amazing that I almost forgot to go cruising. Get a bunch of friends […]
Antigua Bareboat Day by Day
Join us for 9 days and 8 nights chartering in Antigua. Day One – Saturday: All 17 of us made it to the Sunsail base around 4pm. Even though the boats weren’t technically ready until 6pm we were allowed to move gear aboard. Shere Khan was the 50’ monohull carrying 9 souls and Teranga III […]
A glimmer of hope from snow covered Boston
This morning instead of putting on my long coat and waffle stompers I just threw a jacket in my backpack and headed out. The first thing I noticed was that the air no longer hurt my face. Then there was this blindingly bright light in the sky; luckily I had these darkened glasses amongst my […]
Make Your Bareboat Charter a Resounding Success!
As I stirred I was confused; the light streaming in through my hatch was coming from the wrong direction. From my bunk I could tell that we hadn’t swung overnight; I finally figured that the light streaming in wasn’t from the sunrise it was from the moonset! The skipper in me, however groggy, decided just […]
What’s a Day like Bareboating in the BVI?
What does a day Bareboating in the British Virgin Islands look like? Join my friends and I for my first full day bareboat chartering: We started out at Marina Cay, explored The Baths on Virgin Gorda before they opened. Then we sailed to the Bitter End Yacht Club and snorkeled along the barrier reef northeast […]
Head to Head: Charter Catamaran vs. Charter Monohull
With 17 people signed up we were going to need at least two boats. This, combined with the limited availability of boats in Antigua meant that we couldn’t get two matching boats to accommodate everyone. We settled on a 38′ catamaran and a 50′ monohull. We had wanted to try a cat for a while, […]
Choosing our Second Caribbean Bareboat Location
Some sailing friends and I wanted to do another trip during the winter and this is a summary of the process we went through deciding where we should go. Where to Visit When to visit was a constraint of ours, we wanted to sail in the off-season after the new year. So it was either […]
The Video that Started it All
About a year ago I was going over the video clips that I had taken since I had started sailing and I thought with a bit more effort I could come up with a sailing video like many of the awesome sailing videos I had seen on YouTube. So I bought a bunch of video […]