So you are planing a vacation to the warmth and relaxing Caribbean? In fact you choose to visit the Virgin Islands. Now regardless of whether you came on a cruise…
I know many of you consider me to be living the dream and just relaxing down here in paradise. I do feel quite blessed with the path my life has…
My friend Michael on One Love is kind enough to pull me on an intertube, so we can have fun. His girlfriend Julie took this great photo of the two…
Remember last year how Melek and I did a six-week cruise through the Leeward Islands? Well this year I will be cruising the Windward Islands partly on my own and…
[Shane – On my last charter I had a guest that was really worried about a shark attack, so today I thought I would share an article I found on goseewrite.com that…
[Shane – The following article was published on List25.com by David Pegg and is a great follow up to our “Week of Sunsets”. The original address was https://list25.com/the-25-best-places-to-watch-the-sunset-around-the-world . I am disappointed the Virgin…
The other day I was playing videos for Melek and I showed her Under the Guiding Light, which is clips of different sea life I see when I use a…
Shane – I found the following article by Dick McClary ·on Sailboat-Cruising.com. I think it gives a good insight to living aboard. The original link is https://www.sailboat-cruising.com/living-aboard-a-sailboat.html ————————– The people…
Starting April 19th I am done with Virgin Island charters for the season and will be heading down island again. Last year Melek and I spent six weeks cruising the…
Three years ago, Sam Train, a naval officer stationed in Newport, Rhode Island, asked his wife, Francesca Spidalieri, if she’d be willing to live on a boat. “She said ‘Sure,’”…
Living on a boat sounds cool, but is it right for your lifestyle? With real estate rocketing in cities like London, San Francisco, Vancouver, more and more millennials have a…
There I was snorkeling in Christmas Cove and I found a tin can on the seas floor. Boy was I surprised when I looked inside and found this little octopus….
Today’s photo of the day is looking out my solon hatch and seeing a great anchorage and a pelican enjoying being on my boat. I love my life right now,…
[Shane – this week I broke up an article I wrote summarizing our cruise for some sailing magazines. The first part was on Sunday, the second part was on Tuesday, and…
[Shane – on Sunday I told you how I wrote an article and submitted it to some sailing magazines, but I was letting my readers read it first. This is…
[Shane – this is an article I wrote and submitted to several sailing magazines to see if they would be interested in publishing it. Of course, my readers do not…
But today’s photo of the day is me showing off the Guiding Light. I get lots of photos of guest jumping from the boat, but rarely is one taken of…
As you all know by now, we sailed around the Carrabbean starting from St. Barts to beautiful Antigua & Barbuda to St. Kitts and my favorite place Nevis, as well…
Melek loved everything about being on a boat…..except the mosquitos we found at some anchorages. You see she is one of those people that seems to attract mosquitos. If there…
As you can probably tell by the blogs we have written, we loved our time on St Kitts & Nevis. It is so laid back and there is just enough…
Today’s photo of the day is of Melek looking out from one of the Brimstone Hill cannons. Down below you can see the St Kitts Marine Works, which is one…
Why? Simply because it shows respect for the country that has allowed you to enter with your boat. The courtesy flag flies from the starboard halyard and should be raised…
Shane wrote about our engine problem that stopped working half way to Barbuda during our Antigua blogs. Well this time as we while we were in Nevis and motoring towards…
This is a question you will ask a lot in the eight countries that use the East Caribbean dollar (EC$). All eight of these countries are former British territories, except…
Melek and I wanted to see Barbuda as part of our cruise around the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean and instead of sailing to Antigua and then up to Barbuda…
Today is our last blog about our week in Barbuda and I want to spend it telling you about our last anchorage on the southern coast. Gravenor Bay stretches from…
On Tuesday I gave you directions to two different caves and the Codrington plantation house. I also told you to come back and I would give you directions to the…
Last Thursday Melek told you about our adventure of biking across the island of Barbuda to see some caves and the windward side beach. Today I want to give you…
On Thursday I told you about our first day in Barbuda and the adventure we had! Today I will continue with the second half of that day as after a…
As many of you know I am off to cruising around upper Caribbean with Shane, and he had a dream about going to an island called Sombrero where no one…