I love this curry. It's my favorite dish. I usually make it in enormous quantities in a 24" work: it takes 5 hours or so of stirring, and, vacuum-packed it keeps in the freezer for 2, 3 years (we...
Vingilótë is in Fort Lauderdale for maintenance work after her almost 7,500 nautical miles from where she was launched. The ocean is incredibly destructive: warm salt water is one of the more...
From St. Francis to Fort Lauderdale he lovely Vingilótë traveled 7,468.7 nm, and achieved highs of 229 nm in 24 hours, 1,509 nm in 7 days, a maximum of 23.7 kts, and confidently handled 43.1 kts...
And so we are docked in Fort Lauderdale. We cleared in using the CBP ROAM app, bought a DTOPS decal (a whole separate story, let’s just summarize that this time saving option took over an hour...
Into the harbor, right, wait for a bridge to open, through it, follow the channel, fast enough to make the next bridge, right, left, left, on, turn around, and dock.
Rory and Dunbar, once more, we’re tying off the main halyard, and generally preparing for, usually the night’s sailing, but in this case coming into harbor.
Coming up on and going past Miami, we had 20+ knots of headcount, which also drove straight into the Gulf Stream, making for some nasty chop. Out of a dozen attempts this one is I think the only one...