Category: Sailing

Winds are light and we have a current against us.  We are going 1.8 knots.  We despair.  Darold calculates that we could literally walk to Panama faster than we are sailing.  He puts together a contingency plan for what we will do if we run out of fuel.  Fuel up in Guatemala? Honduras? Costa Rica? …

After another night watch, the winds continue the whole day. Just enough to keep us moving nicely along. We spend the day doing various things: reading, schoolwork, fixing things on the boat, cooking, cleaning. We also spend a good portion of the day thinking about doing all sorts of productive things. Late afternoon, as we…

All night the papagayos have been blowing and conditions quickly became uncomfortable.  I, of course, am beside myself with fear.  Darold is happy for the wind and interested in seeing how the boat will handle herself.  For most of the night Darold was on watch during the night; the seas built due to the wind,…

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Dante says to me, “Mom, if you were a superhero, you’d be ‘The Worrier!’”.

Darold has taken the majority of the night watch.  Again.  I wake up to find that the boat’s motion is less severe, the sound of the howling wind is nearly gone and it seems like the worst is over.  I come up into the cockpit and Darold pats me on the shoulder and says, “Papagayos…