November 23, 2023
Thanksgiving, at least in the States but we celebrated just the same. So much to be thankful for but more on that later. I enjoyed a morning beach walk again, paddle boarding to shore and this time walking north. This direction was much slower as there were a lot, I mean a lot, of volcanic outcroppings that had to be…
November 22, 2023
A recovery day? Maybe. After back to back 4:00am departures and long days at sea, it was nice to not have that pressure today. We took our time, had coffee and read the news while the boat gently rocked. Magnificent. Of course all good things must end and I got to work, the freezer in the fridge needed to be…
November 20, 2023
With 60nm to go and a new anchorage to visit, we wanted to ensure we arrived early to have good sunlight, this meant a 4:00am departure. The night before, not thinking I had kept myself up past 9:00pm, totally unnecessary but thankfully I still had a good sleep and woke up refreshed. We slipped the mooring ball lines and we…
November 19, 2023
The point of today was to dive The Chimneys, we woke to 15 knots of wind and rolly seas, that would have been fine but it was the cloud cover that had us worried. We bided our time and around 10am patches of blue sky were visible, we ended up waiting until 12:30 to get the best sun angle and…
November 18, 2023
No doubt about it, today was a day in the water. We started early going out to the reef, a few miles from the anchorage, and scouted out a smaller pass that we hoped to use when we depart in a few days. With the dinghy we could easily make out the route and with a phone a track was…
November 11, 2023
Where we are anchored on in a cove of a private island with a coconut farm on one side and a fancy five-star resort on the other side. The cove is on the backside and has a little bure (cabana) that resort guests rent as a private beach experience. They drop them off with a long boat and guests get…
November 9, 2023
Boat chores ruled the morning, Carl jumped into splicing the screecher halyard (sheathing was cut) and whiping the end of 7 lines. I took care of laundry (sheets and some clothes, gave a deep clean to my bead (bathroom), and caught up one some work, work). Yesterday we figured out that if we placed my Cell Hotspot at the top…
November 5, 2023
Bread making was interrupted by…drum roll please…a water leak. Never something you want to have on a boat, in this case it was fresh water and coming from the carbon filter for the kitchen sink. Second only to painting, my least favorite job is plumbing. But fresh water being important it was time to dig in and resolve the issue.…
November 4, 2023
For a few days we had been watching the weather looking for a good window to start our progress north. The coming Monday or Tuesday were looking the best. And this morning the big decision of the day was whether to move to an anchorage near the pass. After the excitement transiting the pass on our arrival, we wanted to…
November 3, 2023
Whew what an exhausting day, in the best way. The plan was to float the incoming tide between blue pool 1 and blue pool 2. So 9am we took the dinghy to shore for the short walk to the pools. Getting to the river connecting the two pools we could tell the current was ripping! It was hard swimming to…
November 2, 2023
Can you say Deja vu? We pretty much did a repeat of yesterday. This time installing the Triton on the starboard helm station. With our experience from yesterday we shaved 90 minutes off the project, and while unseen, made the cutout opening very nice. Around two we pumped up the wing and headed off to go foiling. I had a…
November 1, 2023
We had unexpected rain light overnight which gave everything a nice rinse and along with it the strongest winds we have seen in weeks. It was really honking. But for some reason our anchor spot was in a more calm area than both north and south of us. Those areas were covered in large whitecaps. Win number one for the…