For Christmas Eve evening Gaia and I had planned to try to make contact with each other and have a Christmas party on the water. I tried hailing them and when I didn’t get a response, at 9pm we set off expired flares anyway. It was a fun little celebratory thing to do. I had actually […]
The winds shifted more on our nose making the sail uncomfortable by morning. We had reefed the main and Shelby was not happy. It was the previous evening into the night where she exclaimed she was seasick. Giving her opportunity for rest and time to adjust, Joe and I had taken night watches. It was […]
It was just before Christmas when Gaia and I were trying to determine an appropriate weather window for saying farewell to Bermuda and heading down to the Caribbean. We had decided that Antigua should be the ultimate destination as it was the most eastern island that proved to be one of the easiest for crew […]
Growing up in Upstate New York, meaning 3 miles from the St. Lawrence River (the body of water that I learned how to swim in), one hour south of Ottawa, capital of Canada Upstate NY, meant that I lived out in the middle of nowhere. My closest neighbor was a quarter of a mile away […]
The next few days after Gaia arrived and crews I met left Caribbean bound involved continued effort of attempting to settle in, trying to stay dry, communal dinners, and planning the getaway to Hamilton. There was an International Moth Regatta in town and we decided it would be more fun to sail over and check it […]
We had just put up the spinnaker and started to see Acedia scream along when it was time for my morning call from Jon. I was on the phone chatting down below when he said it looked like we had entered the Gulf Stream. I was a bit confused by this because we hadn’t come […]
Bob, Lance, and I- what a great ocean sailing team! I seriously couldn’t ask for better crew for my first offshore passage as Captain of my own boat. It was an eerie morning where pea soup thick fog surrounded us as we snuck off the dock at Brewer’s Cove Haven. It was early Friday November […]
All that love, blood, sweat, and tears! Yet, it still led to a grueling 100-day count down this past summer and fall, which started at the end of July counting down to November 1, 2015. This is the date that marks the end of hurricane season, it is when most boats start looking at weather […]
Yes, there is crying in boat ownership. What can I say? I’m a girl. I didn’t mention, yet, the second time I sailed up the Piscataqua River (which has the 3rd fastest current of any river in the US) and I didn’t hit slack tide just right. The confused, conflicting tides created standing waves and white water […]
Where to start? Whenever I think about where to start the story on how I started sailing and living on a boat, I start jamming out to the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, this is a story all about how…. a girl who just wanted to learn how to sail, oh […]
s/v Acedia 