No captain wants to hear the words “we are taking on water”, but if it does I hope you can resolve it as successfully as we did. Sadly, I ran…
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I just submitted the following article to be published in a How To section of a sailing magazine. As a loyal follower of ours I always like to give you…
Last month Lily had to go back to Mexico for a week and she was very excited when she got back, because she brought a Mexican flag to fly on…
We got back to Guiding Light after leaving her on the hard in Rio Dulce, Guatemala during the 2022 hurricane season on November 3rd. Once we left my friend’s house…
I wrote an article about a DIY project I completed last year where I made a new cover board for the navigation station. I am going to submit it to…
Last blog I left you as I was motoring around the south side of Grenada on my way to Grenada Marine in St David, which is on the southeast corner…
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 have a stainless steel marine grade BBQ grill that I mounted on a stern rail. It is attached to a bracket that is screwed around the pipe of the…
During the global pandemic I was stuck aboard Guiding Light, a Lagoon 410, in St Lucia for over a month. During that time I worked on the boat and started…
Since I have been stuck on St Lucia during this pandemic I decided it was long past time that I pull all my spare parts out of the locker I…
As I stated a few days ago, I have been blessed to be in St Lucia during this pandemic. During this time I have worked on several boat projects including…
Since I was in Trinidad for two and a half to three weeks and staying in Chaguaramas where all the yacheting facilities are, I figured I should get a few…
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…
I had my engines replaced last off season and ever sense my starboard engine was just not spitting out enough raw water that is used to cool the engine. The…
Right after I dropped my Christmas charter off in St Vincent I realized that it was nice and sunny out, but I was not charging my batteries. After some diagnosing…
Once again I flew back to the boat at the end of hurricane season to get it ready for the new sailing season. This is the second year in a…
As of right now I am in Turkey exploring the Aegean coast. So far this offseason I have been to Chicago, New York City, Kaliningrad (Russia), Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia,…
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…
Since I am leaving the Virgin Islands and will not be back in US waters for some time and my batteries were getting near the end (I already lost one…
When I first bought Guiding Light almost 10 years ago, it was a 4 cabin/4 head Lagoon 410. In order to take a shower, you basically sat on the toilet…
My outside table is white fiberglass and needs to have a tablecloth on it to give the cockpit some color. In the past I have used brown, but I was…
When I first bought the Guiding Light in May 2009 one of the first things I did was replace the old plow style anchor with a brand new 33 kilo…
I know I have not been good this last week about getting blogs out and I apologize about that. The truth is I was so focused on rebuilding my shower…
This week I have been telling you why I left the Guiding Light in Granada Marine and how they installed brand new engines. I was lucky and got the boat…
The big project I had done on Guiding Light this year was to have the staff at Grenada Marine take out the old Yanmar 3GM30 engines and SD20 sail drives…
I hope you enjoyed reading about Steve and my adventures in Tobago over the last three weeks. From there we sailed to Trinidad and explored around there for several weeks…
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We are talking about boat systems & electric motors with Joel James in this episode of the Guiding Light Podcast. Joel helped me chose to purchase a Lagoon 410, and…
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…
I have been having a water leak in my port engine compartment for a while now. As soon as it happened I figured it was the seal on raw water…
For several years I have wanted to find time so I could get around to replacing the vinyl ceiling in the aft port cabin. A combination of moisture from the shower…
