Category: Sailing

We had a fabulous time in Lisbon. It is a beautiful, historic city with friendly people (who fortunately speak English well as our Portuguese is lacking and no one wanted to speak Spanish). We spent a week exploring and doing errands. We also took a side trip to the nearby city of Sintra to view…

            Our second part of the Atlantic crossing (from the Azores to Portugal) was fairly uneventful up until we approached land and then we had a few moments of excitement (read on to see details!). However, upon leaving Lisbon to go to the south coast of Portugal, we had to…

This post is a collection of the “sail mail” emails (sent over our SSB radio) to close family while we were on our voyage.  Some emails are written by Darold and some by Jennifer. 9/22/14 Current Time (UTC): 16:00 Current Position: 40 deg. 11.2 min N x 067 deg. 39.6 W Avg SOG:5.1 Kts Distanced…

                               I used to work in New York City.  I would take the train into Grand Central Terminal from Peekskill, fight my way through the terminal, and then walk to my office at 41st and Lexington.  We had a great view from my office of the…

In a little more than 10 months, we have “dropped the hook” (anchored) in more than 70 different places. (In comparison, we have stayed in 17 marinas.) Anchoring can be simply lovely or downright uncomfortable, depending on a number of factors.   When we drop the hook, we always “back down” on our anchor, which means…