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 […]
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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 […]
Wednesday, March 18 to Thursday, March 19 Miles Traveled: 149.0 nm Wednesday, March 18 We checked with Chris Parker on the best day to leave for our 48 hour, 248nm journery from Boqueron, PR to Luperon, DR. We checked with Walkabout and they agreed that today was the best time to leave. They would leave […]
Sunday March 8, 2015 Miles Traveled: 50.6 nm We pulled the anchor at 6:12AM and motored out of the harbor at Ensenada Vieques. Our friends Bob and Jeanne on Walkabout left 10 minutes after us. The wind was very light so we kept motoring toward the SE point of Puerto Rico in 6 foot swells. […]
Tuesday, February 24 Miles traveled: 8.3 nm The Baths, 9.7nm Great Harbor, Peter Island We left Virgin Gorda 731am after Phil had to tighten the Alternator belt from squealing. We quickly let out the head sail and started towards the channel with the Star Clipper Cruise Ship leaving also towards the same channel then we […]
Saturday, February 20 I woke early a little after 6am and read until time to listen to Chris Parker Weather. The wind is to increase later today and tomorrow and start decreasing on Monday with a North Swell for the next 24 hours developing. We are protected from the north swell (we hope) and have […]
Thursday February 19 to Friday, February 20 Miles Traveled: 81.6 nm Overnight to Virgin Gorda We had moved Changes out of the lagoon at St Martin on the 2:30 bridge and anchored off the beach. Once again following the 8 coordinates we wrote down after a cruisers Net, we saw water 5.8ft under the keel […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 