Tuesday, June 21,2022 Boat distance 29.77 nm. GPS trip odometer 175. Not zeroed in who knows how long. We’ll do the math for future posts. Passage time 5.5 hours which is fast. We woke at 535am, Phil being up first. The weather 67F with cloudy skies and calm at the dock. We realized last night […]
Category Archives: Passages
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 […]
Sunday March 15. Distance traveled 13.2 NM We got going early and rowed the dingy over the the mangroves and a creek Bob told us about. The entrance was narrow with mangrove roots hanging down for us to posh through. Once past the entrance we managed to keep going by using the ors as paddles. […]
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 […]
Thursday, January 8 Miles Traveled: 36.8 We listened to Chris Parker weather and then raised anchor at 740am for Dominica with 7 boats in front of us. Guess we aren’t the only ones that thought this was a good weather window to go between islands. We started with 1′ swells 30 min in which increased […]
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Miles Traveled – 47.1 NM We have been in Jolly Harbor, Antigua for a couple days, but we have our weather window and it’s time now to leave this beautiful place and sail to Nevis. We released our mooring ball @ 631am with Walkabout bringing up our rear as we exit […]
Sunday, January 18 Miles traveled: This morning we left Les Saintes at a little after 7am. It was a motorsailing day with winds less than 10 kts which means the waves were <1 feet. That means it was a VERY comfortable sail which I loved. We traveled 23.4nm to get to Pigeon Island in the […]
December 27 to January 9 We have described the days in other posts but no mention of the wind. To leave Rodney Bay for the crossing we must do our best to pick a low wind day. For Changes the ideal is 10 to 15 knots. At this wind speed Changes goes 6+ and the […]
December 27 Saturday Anticipating an early start we had stripped the dingy Friday afternoon. Stripping the dingy entailed taking everything out and removing the outboard. We normally have two gas tanks, cables and locks, the bailer and sponges, plus the outboard mounted on the dingy transom. We were going to tow the dinghy to Martinique […]
Saturday, December 20 Miles: 51.4 nm We woke a little after 6am and started making preparations to leave. I was going to listen to Chris Parker under way so got out the noise canceling headphones, extender cable and finally after a lot of searching, the 1/4″ to 1/8″ phone jack adapter. Now I can listen […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 