It’s so timely that I get back to my blog from sailing a little over a year ago. I finally got word from my friend in Dominica that he and all those close to him are ok after the storm Maria caused severe categoric hurricane havoc over one of my favorite islands I have visited […]
I had indeed sailed to Dominica; in the wee hours of the next morning in a hazy sleep, I heard roosters off on shore. I was so confused. Where the heck was I? What was going on?! Oh yes. I remember, I sailed Acedia to Dominica and was anchored out in St Rupurt Bay, Portsmouth. […]
The next morning was so exciting! I was awake before 5:30am and had the anchor up and sail ties off before 6am. I got out of the harbor as the sun rose behind the mountain, I put the sail up and I was off sailing toward Guadeloupe!-in my pajamas which is my favorite 🙂 It […]
It was supposed to be my last day in Antigua and after running around doing errands, I went back to Acedia, sea trialed the new autohelm, tied up to the fuel dock and topped off all my tanks, with water, gas, and diesel. Once I got back to anchor, I jumped into the nice, clear […]
Once all my friends had left me behind on this island to wait out parts for a new autopilot, I had no choice but to get to work. I started to design this blog and wrote. A lot. I sat out on my boat at sunsets, in cafes and bars with wifi, the random stranger […]
I had made it and this is what I had to look forward to? Â The exact life before I left, except I didn’t have work to interrupt my…work! Â My boat had had a salt water beating inside and out. Antigua: Post Passage Clean up and Fix up Aw, Acedia was safely on a mooring finally. […]
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 […]
s/v Acedia 