Category Archives: 2020 Voyaging

Check-out my updated About page. I’ve got a new picture of HJ up there and a really cool watercolor that a fellow cruiser and friend did while we were talking. Thanks for following along.

My four nights in the Spanish Wells Yacht Haven were delightful. For $2.50 per foot per night ($78 per night for HJ’s 31 feet), I had hot showers, a pool and easy access to the village to do some re-provisioning. In addition, my neighbors in the slip next to me are my newest friends. InContinue reading “And You Thought I Had Come a Long Way in a Small Boat”

“A person’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of the things about them.” —Fredrick Douglas Whenever I read a quote from the past that refers to the masculine, I like to think that—today—the person would have phrased the quote more gender-neutral. I hope Fredrick Douglas won’t mind myContinue reading “Enjoying Spanish Wells”

In my introductory comments to this site, I suggested that it’s actually not a small world and time doesn’t fly. I added that I want to earn my distance, not just hop a plane and be deposited somewhere. The other night my wish was granted by the Northeast Providence Channel. It roughly separates the northernContinue reading “A Well-Earned 55 Miles”

“She was a rare thing, fine as a beeswing. So fine a breath of wind might blow her away.She was a lost child, she was running wild.She said, ‘so long as there’s no price on love I’ll stay.’And you wouldn’t want me any other way.” —Richard Thompson, Beeswing It’s 11:00 PM and I’m anchored upContinue reading “I Wouldn’t Want Her Any Other Way”

Wonderful dinner a couple nights ago at Brown’s Garden in the Berry Islands. Ronnie Brown is the rightfully proud proprietor. Featured dishes are conch and spiny lobster. I had the conch and it was out of this world. When I had this dinner, I was in the marina so cycled to Ronnie’s on a marinaContinue reading “Brown’s Garden”

The day looks good so I’ll be checking-out of the marina shortly and anchoring up outside. I’ve heard there’s a cool plane wreck to check out via kayak and snorkling, as well as a blue hole nearby. I think this is the plane incident (posted for all my pilot friends, you know who you are!).Continue reading “Going Outside”

Note: Bahamian wi-fi appears to be on “island time”so I can’t upload pictures. Thus, you’ll be getting 1,000 words with this post 😉 Spoiler alert…we made it! Hazel James and I made the passage from Florida to the Bahamas, and are now in the Berry Islands of the Bahamas. While I know that pride isContinue reading “HJ Flies the Bahamian Flag in Her Rigging!”

Firstly, thanks for all the positive commentary on this site. I really appreciate it. Sometimes I feel so good, other times it hits me that Colleen died less than five months ago. Lately, when I’m feeling down, I think, “If I feel like this now, how in the world did I make it through theContinue reading “The Shakedown”

“People Plan, and God Laughs.” (Yiddish adage) I was going to title this post “The Goal” but to me, a goal intimates that any deviation from it is some sort of failure. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve got my plan of where I want to go on this voyage and how IContinue reading “The Plan”