Port St Charles at sunset. Far too beautiful to be real. Bizzy graciously offered us moorage in the beautiful marina of Port St Charles, to charge up our batteries and refill our water tanks. This...
Full moon over Barbados. Edwins flight got in late. Edwin flew into Barbados Saturday night. Dunbar and I took the dinghy in to pick him up at Independence Square. Y’all don’t need pictures of...
Phil Berman (president of Balance Catamarans) introduced us to his friend Captain Ron Williams and his lovely wife Rosalia, and they are most awesome people. Ron and Rosalia own a cat charter...
Land ho! Barbados from about ten miles out. Barbados is the easternmost of the Caribbean islands, in fact it’s technically not in the Caribbean at all but in the western Atlantic. Whatever. It’s...
In the South Atlantic, the trade winds blow pretty consistently from the South-east from the tip of Africa to the equator, southern edge of the Caribbean. So this whole trip has been running pretty...
Tomorrow evening we will arrive in Barbados. From there I shall return to the real world of work and meetings and conference calls, and Edwin will take my place on the crew to take Vingilótë the...
This morning Irene made a luxury breakfast, usually reserved for special locations like Christmas, birthdays, and, apparently me showing up after five weeks apart!
Irene and I are swapping places here on Barbados. I left Seattle at 12:25, traveled 20+ hours, four legs of 11+ hours flying. But I made it, and I woke up on Vingilótë looking out on Carlisle Bay,...
This is me at the top of Vingilótë's 78' mast, working on one of the lines. That's the island of Barbados behind me. This is what I could see when I looked down. That 52.5' boat doesn't look very...
This is me at the top of Vingilótë’s 78’ mast, working on one of the lines. That’s the island of Barbados behind me. This is what I could see when I looked down. That 52.5’ boat doesn’t...