Rookies sailing from the Great Lakes to the Caribbean – with patience, care, and attention to detail, you can do it!
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This Ship’s For Sale
(Originally published in 2012) Anybody want to buy a ship? We lived aboard Fidelis in the inner harbor of Baltimore for five years, from the summer of 1999 until the summer of 2004 when we left for points south. During that time I worked at a local veterinary hospital that was walking distance from the…
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Blowing Our Engine in Norfolk – Part 1
(Originally published in 2012) We were enjoying a few moments of elation. The first leg of many on our way down the ICW to Miami was drawing to a conclusion. Here we were finally at the very bottom of the Bay, bidding our fond adieus to the Chesapeake – crabs, gunkholing, “creeks” that dwarfed most…
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Blowing Our Engine – Part 2 – The Pungo Ferry Curse
(Originally published in 2012) After our nightmare in Portsmouth, new rebuilt engine in place, we were eager to leave Portsmouth behind and get heading south again. We took off and motored down the Elizabeth River, passing through the lock at Great Bridge. Things were going smoothly and we were starting to relax a little bit,…
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Leaving Georgetown
(Originally published in 2012) Georgetown, on the island of Great Exuma at the southern end of the Exuma island group in the Bahamas, is not simply a good provisioning stop, or one of the more complete stopovers for conducting business, flying in and out of the country, or for mechanical repairs. It is one of…
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Barbuda
(Originally published in 2012) After spending three weeks hanging out in Simpson Bay Lagoon and cruising the local attractions in St. Martin, we decided it was time to be moving on down toward Antigua, where we had a date with our friends Chris and MaryLiz of Wandering Albatross to sail in the Antigua Classic Yacht…
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Hudson River to New Jersey
(Originally published in 2012) The Hudson River Having just finished our transit of the Erie Canal, we were once again embarking on another new adventure. Here we were in the Hudson River, still 200 miles upstream from New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, yet suddenly we were presented with a five foot tidal…
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Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta
(Originally published in 2012) The Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta We were rounding the southeast shoreline of Antigua on our way from a few weeks anchored off the leeward shoreline of Barbuda – back in “civilization” again after several weeks of just hanging out on the hook. As we moseyed on down along the…
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Miami to the Bahamas
(Originally published in 2012) Miami to the Bahamas Departed for Bahamas in Feb 2005 It’s January of 2005 and we are finally in Miami. It seems like forever and then some that it has taken us to get here but we made it. After the disaster in Portsmouth that took pretty much the entire…
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New York Harbor to Chesapeake Bay
(Originally published in 2012) New York Harbor to the Chesapeake After anchoring inside the hook at Sandy Hook where we reminisced over our trip down from the Great Lakes to New York Harbor, we left the protection of Sandy Hook only to find ourselves motoring through a fogbank. This sensation was new to us and…
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The Hudson River – South from the Erie Canal
(Originally published in 2012) The Hudson River – Erie Canal to the Atlantic Having just finished our transit of the Erie Canal, we were once again embarking on another new adventure. Here we were in the Hudson River, still 200 miles upstream from New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, yet suddenly we were…
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