Hello everyone! I am Captain Shane’s brother, Vance. Since Shane’s charters are in the Virgin Islands I had the unique opportunity to visit St Maarten as I was asked to…
If any of you read my Facebook post from earlier this week (you can friend me with the button to the right) you will know I was down in Austin,…
when a beautiful woman knocks on my hull, but this story is the exception. You see on Thursday morning at 1am the wind picked up and it started raining hard. …
Everyone has to do it at some point and today is one of my days. Laundry on a boat is a bit different than on shore. Mostly because of the…
…some when they arrive…Like Chase who was aboard two years ago for a little over a month before he got a paid gig as a mate on another boat. Getting…
Lately people have been asking me if I have air conditioning aboard my vessel (mostly from the brokers trying to sell the charters to future guest, but also individuals looking…
This blog is to help inform all those newly licensed or wanting to be licensed captains out there. For Americans the US Coast Guard is the issuing and policing agency…
It is great when things come together. My friend Jasmeet was about to jump on a cruise with his wife and another couple. Just days before they boarded he started…
I spent the last week hanging out with the boat Sabbaticus (whom I met in Annapolis, MD) and the other boats moving with them. We had such a great time…
This week’s blog has a guest writer. Jamie here, writing about my trip the past week on Guiding Light with Captain Shane. Hopefully his devoted readers don’t mind the change!…
Joel and I have been overwhelmed with the amount of wildlife here in the Virgin Islands. When we were in St John we walked from Francis Bay to the Annaberg…
When Joel talked about coming out my original plan was tospend a week or so exploring the Turks Island group with him and then making a passage to the Virgin…
This week started off by having a visit from Santa. Later Mike and Kay from Finisterre joined Joel and I for Christmas dinner. Growing up, one of Joel’s favorite meals…
This week I hung out in Sapodilla Bay (see 1st photo) while the winds blew out of the east at 20-25. I had a relaxing time while I climbed Sapodilla…
I left Rum Cay on Sunday at 8pm with the idea to sail a close reach in 10-15 knot ENE wind to Samana Cay and arrive at 10am-noon and have…
Because she might worry about Monday when I left Abacos and headed south. The forecast called for 15-20 knots of wind, so I got up, put a reef in the…
Every Sunday Nipper’s, on Great Guana Cay, has become famous for their pig roast and I wanted to try it. The only problem was I in Green Turtle Cay still…
Thanksgiving in the Bahamas! Do they celebrate it here? The answer is no….and yes. It is not a Bahamas holiday, but the Americans still celebrate it and I had a…
The air is more fragrant, the water is clearer, and the sand is brighter…I must be back in the Bahamas!!!! But how did I get here? Since the Gulf Stream…
I spent the entire week hanging out in the north part of Lake Worth, which is in North Palm Beach. There is a dinghy landing a quarter of a mile…
November 1st is the day my insurance says I can start heading south due to the hurricane season ending in 30 days and the likelihood of a storm is greatly…
My name is Eric McKenzie. I’m 25 years old and a full time firefighter/paramedic for Chillicothe, MO Fire Department. I have never been sailing before but love the ocean and…
This week started with me in the Bahamas and ending with me in the United States. On Sunday Paul, Nancy, & I hung out at the fantastic Old Bahama Bay…
This week started with Paul and I reattaching my galley sink, which had come loose. Once this project was completed we moved to Slaughter Harbor (nice weather anchorage only) between…
We spent this week relaxing in the Berry Islands. As you read at the end of last week we spent a couple of days anchored off of Chub Cay. This…
This week was spent exploring Andros, which is the largest Bahamian island and one of the least populated. We started off by sailing 40 miles south southwest from New Providence…
This week’s blog written by Nancy Williams. Paul & I arrived on the S/V Guiding Light in the Atlantis Marina late in the afternoon. Shane was not onboard. He was…
This week started with us at Harbor Island. The island is a very popular tourist spot and I pulled the bikes out so Michael and I could follow a map…
Traveling the day before wiped Michael out, so he slept in on Sunday. By 10am I got antsy, so I pulled up the anchor and set the jib without using…
I started this week in Rock Sound, Eleuthera waiting for some unsettled, rainy weather to pass, so I removed the temporary boost pump I installed on the water maker. I…