Hi everyone! As you can see I haven’t been posting. Sorry but just not up to it. We visited friends in Long Island Sound, then went up the Hudson River and into the Erie Canal spending a weekend in Fairport, NY to visit my brother and his family. Then we went the rest of the […]
I know it’s been a long time since we posted but it’s never too late to start up. The last time you heard from us we were in Fort Lauderdale. Well from there with the help of ourgood friend Ken Blyth, we sailed to the Cape Fear River and then motored up the inter coastal […]
Changes has now been in salt water for almost two years and traveled 6650 nautical miles. She has been used every day for two years except for 5 months when we were back in Ohio. The result is that things have worn out, broken or were lost. So now that we are docked at Lauderdale […]
Thursday, April 2, Today we found out there is a bus, Gibson Bus, that will ake us to the Airport where the locals are waiting to welcome in their relatives arriving on the BahamasAir plane. There a DJ set up music leaving the huge speakers in the back of the pick up truck and got […]
Tuesday, March 31 to Wednesday April 1, 2015 Miles Traveled: 116 nm We listened to Chris Parker weather in the morning. There was to be a 2 day moderation in the winds, and we decided to take it as being in the SE Bahamas with a trof just south of us that wasn’t moving. It […]
Monday March 30 Miles Traveled, 4.0 nm We had decided to go back to Matthew Town to get Lorraine’s phone fixed and pick up some water and groceries. We had met a German couple Karl and Hanne on SV Silberwowe who needed to go to check in and invited to come with us on Changes. […]
Friday, March 27 The morning started early with swells from the SE rocking the boat from 4am onward. After listening to Chris Parker and getting the weather from our area via the Webcast from free WiFi through the BadBoy, we had breakfast and went to town to get a SIM card for our cell phone. […]
Tuesday, March 24 to Thursday, March 26 We left the dock at Puerto Bahia Marina in Samana at 645am and put the Main Sail up in the Bay with one reef. We motor sailed to punta de Genaro then crossed the Canadaiqua Banks and motorsailed NNE to Cano Samana and then turn WNW to Cabo […]
Monday, March 9 We have been having problems with our steaming and mast light, so Bob from Walkabout came early (720am) while the winds were calm to winch Phil up the mast. Phil ws able to get the steaming spreader light working, but determined that there is no current at the top of the mast […]
Tuesday, March 10 Today we rented a car from Hertz. they met us at the Marina Offfice and drove us a few miles to their base where we picked up the car, a Kia. It had good A/C which was very much appreciate since we don’t have it on the boat. We had wanted to […]
