Thank you, Captain Shane for leading us on a great voyage. It has been a blast hanging out with you! I loved how we share the root beer a day…
Before I sent it to some magazines to publish, I would like to share the walking map of historic Charlotte Amalie I wrote to my loyal readers. Enjoy! CHARLOTTE AMALIE…
As many of you know, on the Guiding Light each cabin has a theme. We have the sailing room, the firefighter room, and the pirate room. Well I always had…
Here is the latest creation. It is sautéed jalapenos mixed with cream cheese and colby cheese, rolled inside a butterflies chicken breast, wrapped in bacon, and covered in BBQ sauce…
I can’t believe the colors we see down here sometimes!!!! This was taken at my favorite anchorage in the Virgin Islands…Salt Pond Bay.
I have been coming to the Virgin Islands with my parents and sister since I was eight years old, and this was my sixth year coming to this extraordinary place….
My name’s Eric McKenzie and I’m a friend of Shane’s from Missouri. I sailed with him once before up the East Coast in 2011 before he started his chartering business. …
I took my first charter on a hike to the petroglyphs on the south side of St John. I was so amazed at how much the waterfall was flowing. Usually…
I finally got my new curtains up and am now ready to share my new solon photos with you. Carol at Atlantic Canvas and Sail, here at Puerto Del Rey,…
Yea! Guiding Light is floating in the water again. I was set in the water around 10am and motored to my assigned dock space, where I will be for two…
My name is Guiding Light and I want to tell you what Captain Shane did to me. Can you believe back in mid August he took me out of the…
I am sad, because today is the last full day my parents will be in Puerto Rico with me. They have been a tremendous help getting the boat ready for…
Having spent the last two weeks in Puerto Rico I have observed a few things. 1) The people here have been so nice. Everyone has tried so hard to be…
Work on the boat is progressing nicely. I have yard guys all over the boat working on fiberglass and thru hulls today. This afternoon my dad and I started working…
After a wonderful, relaxing, and yet productive time off the boat I flew back to Puerto Rico with my parents in tow. Besides enjoying their company I need to use…
On my last full day in Dallas I made cranberry scones for my family and as a thank you for the Cook’s who housed me in Dallas. This was another…
so back to the boat I went!!! Of course I could not go back without new stuff for the boat. You should have seen the check in lady’s face when…
Salt Pond Bay is on the south coast of St John and is a bay on the western side of the Rams Head peninsula. This is my favorite anchorage in…
This is a dessert I have wanted to try for a while now. I started by mixing up a batch of cream cheese filling and divided it into three bowls. …
The north part of Virgin Gorda has a mile or so wide protected basin, which I feel you could spend three days of a charter exploring. Check out the first…
I am in Missouri visiting some family when my cousin said we should check out the Steamboat Arabia Museum. It was fantastic and was about a paddle wheel riverboat that sank in the…
This was my latest experiment. It is a double layer carrot cake with mango juice added to the batter. There is homemade cream cheese frosting between the layers plus on top…
Last week I mentioned when you are done exploring the Baths you should take a taxi tour of Virgin Gorda and stop by Copper Mine Point in the process. This…
As much as I love being in the USVI (especially St John and St Croix) and SVI (just read the three blogs in September) the number one site in the…
While my last several blogs, about my time in the Spanish VI and Puerto Rico, have been posting, I had several people comment through the website (remember you can leave…
San Juan was established in 1509 and officially named in 1521. Remember Christopher Columbus made his historic voyage in 1492, only 17 years before the city was…
Even though the boat is put away for the hurricane season, my parents and I could not stop “cruising”. We simple continued in a van with two of…
We bid Viequez a fond farewell as we sailed away from the west coast one morning with just the jib up. It was a fast, dead downwind sail that…
Last week I left you at Luis Pena Island off of Calebra. We stayed here for the night, because it gave us an easy departure point to sail 8-10 miles…