Whether you’re sailing as a hobby in your spare time or thinking about chartering a boat for the vacation of a lifetime, sailing has loads of hidden benefits you don’t…
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We started the cruising season in the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. While we really liked cruising the river and the community that is there, we were not impressed with the may…
On this occasion we had to renew our visas in Belize (they only give you 30 days at a time), so we took the dinghy a couple miles across the…
Hey everyone. Why don’t you join me this afternoon for a Live YouTube video talking about boats! I will be sitting with my best friend and we will be discussing…
I do love when I find sea glass and pottery, which comes from broken glass and pottery being rubbed against rocks and sand until the jagged edges are rounded and…
Check out these two guys. Every morning I have been in Marigot Bay, St Lucia I have woken to them chirping away. They are about the size of my fist…
Back at the beginning of the pandemic I was anchored next to a family of four on a catamaran. We had waved back and forth a few times, but one…
When I was in Soufrière, St Lucia last week I went snorkeling with another boat over at the Bat Cave, which is a slit in the cliff with a bat…
Lionfish are an invasive species to the Caribbean Sea. Therefore, when I see them I like to go hunting. On this particular day I saw way more than I usually…
Many of my friends and family have wondered how I am doing given that I am alone aboard Guiding Light, a Lagoon 410, during this month plus long quarantine we…
St Lucia is an island nation in the middle of the Eastern Caribbean. There have been 15 cases of Covid-19 within a population of 190,000. Which I think is really…
It has been a little over a month since the Covid-19 corona virus has swept the world and had almost every country lock it’s front door. I have been anchored…
I know everyone around the world is dealing with the corona virus in one way or another and we each have stories to share. With that said let me tell…
Despite the fact I´m a city girl who loves the city’s comforts, I always want to try something new. Until now, my longest “aboard staying” was spending a full day…
Today I am publishing a video blog showing me raising, sailing, and dousing my new-to-me spinnaker sail. I bought a used ParaSailor at the end of last season and set…
Now that I have spent some time in the amazing country of Grenada I want to share a list of anchorages found around the island in order to encourage more…
One of the three ladies on my last charter was really looking forward to doing some fishing on the charter. I told her the best chance would be to troll…
After exploring St Kitts and Nevis I had a good weather window to make the 260 mile sail to Bequia in the Grenadines. I had a couple aboard that wanted…
A while back I was snorkeling with some guest and I found a piece of wreckage in about 25-30 feet of water and when I dove down to investigate it…
That is a good question. After the two week road trip I took last September to see a bunch of National Park in California and Arizona, which I just finished…
Cruisers come in all kinds of boats. From trawlers to sail boats. Monohulls to catamarans. Small cuddy cabins to massive mega yachts. One thing that is common among each of…
I decided today I was going to write about my typical day when I am not on charter. How I get up, have breakfast, stretch, write, work on boat projects,…
I had an absolutely fantastic time in Trinidad & Tobago and I did not get to see everything I want to see in Trinidad, but I will have to come…
What is skurfing? Haha. Good question. It is when you take a surfboard of paddle board and get towed behind a dinghy as if you were skiing. Thus the name…
Last week I said big news was coming. Well this is it! For the last four to five years my guest have been asking me to write a cookbook with…
In this episode of The Cruising Life you will go offshore sailing with Capt Shane and his father as they sail Guiding Light from Grenada to Puerto Rico. The 430…
In the second episode of the Guiding Light podcast I am going to chat with Steve Thorn, who spent two months with me this summer. We sat down during our…
Sailing is certainly a unique choice of activity whilst you travel. It’s tranquil and quiet – and serves as a perhaps necessary escape of everyday life. Here are just five…
unfortunately the Windward Island of the Caribbean have a reputation of being a bit rougher than the Virgin Islands. I am sure that most of this is blown out of…
[Shane – Earlier this week I wrote a blog about tubing and two of the photos of the day were of me tubing. Well today I wanted to share a…