It was a busy night. We set the chute around midnight after rounding Cape Ann; we triple checked everything and had a great, if hesitant, hoist! Then Gurhan then got his first solo night watch with a preview of the Perseids to keep him company. I set an alarm for when we’d get close to […]
Longing for a Lee Shore
Why I almost quit sailing before I really got started Watching a peacock get blown over attempting to display his plumage tells me today will be a good day for sailing. I donned one of the terrible yellow foam life vests and signed out a hobie cat. The wind built as I sailed away from […]
Grenadines Bareboat Adventure 2016
Team Yacht Sauce just hosted the world premiere of SavvySalt’s latest video. To put the “world” in “world premiere” I’d better share it before I partake fully in the festivities… without further ado: Grenadines Logistics Our research told us that we were in for a lot of tradewinds sailing that would be impacted by the […]
A Difficult November Delivery to Maine
The shit hit the fan all at once: we rounded Cape Ann and suddenly we were no longer sheltered from the northwest wind or seas. We headed up to close hauled and began pounding into the chop. The sun dipped below the horizon and we were quickly enveloped in darkness. Rounding this natural choke point […]
End of Season Follow-up
In my post about my last sail of the season I mentioned that my phone went for a swim in the bilge and I lost the footage. In a shocking turn of events the rice immersion saved the phone and some of the footage. It was a hectic sail so I didn’t get much footage […]
Neptune Subtly Hints that my Season is Over
I started the day denying that the sailing season is over. October 31st is just another date, I don’t need to stop sailing just because most of my friends’ boats are out of the water and Boston’s sailing clubs are closed for the season. We planned a fun day of sailing November 1st in Buzzards […]
The Scenic Route to the Boat Show
“Today is rain free and just a little bit on the windy side in the Boston Harbor. Let’s go sailing ehh?” “The bay will be much like the open ocean. Sounds like an adventure!” “I really want to get out there now!” Thus were my lamentations as I watched some formidable weather pass the East […]
Seventeen Point Seven
This season is really turning out to be epic. I knew I had signed up for a lot but it’s far more than I had expected. And then I signed on for a week-long delivery up the east coast that turned out to be epic. Here’s a few seconds from the delivery: It wasn’t all […]