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…
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…
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…
Just as my mother shared things she learned while being aboard last week, I learned a few things while having my parents visit. Be careful of how much you make…
On a boat it becomes your identity! As cruisers we rarely know each other’s last names, only our boat’s name. Some examples are “aren’t you Shane on Guiding Light”, “Ahoy…
During the end of the hurricane season I had my old cloth bimini replaced with a fiberglass hardtop as I wrote about at the beginning of November. I love the…
This week I participated in the USVI boat show, where I had the opportunity to talk to 30 or so different charter brokers. Each one stayed aboard for 20-30 minutes…
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…
My brother and I just pulled into Cruz Bay on St John after an overnight motor sail from St Maarten. I finally left the shipyard even though they had not…
Well here I sit in a St Maarten shipyard with my boat still on hard ground. I left the boat here for over a month and a half with the…
Well everyone it is Thursday and I am heading to Miami at 600 knots, so I must be on an airplane or setting a new sailing record. TJ and Patrick…
Hello everyone this is Shane again and this week I had to use my National Park Service assigned spot for the first time. Tropical Storm Isaac passed within a hundred…
Hello my name is Chris. Audrey and I hopped on the Guiding Light for the 8th and 9th day of our 10 day honeymoon in St. John. Being a boat…
During my time in The Bahamas I had the honor of flying a flag which flew over the Maryland State Capital and was presented to a past crewmate as a…
If I did not already know it then the island of St John let me know this week. You see Sunday I had a day charter with some returning guest…
Everything takes longer in the Caribbean. I ordered a terminal for one of my lifelines three weeks ago. At the end of two weeks I called and then a few…
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 met with the ladies at Flagship Charter Service, which is a charter clearing house where they can get me represented with several brokers. They liked the boat, but said…
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 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…
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…
I arrived back to the boat on Monday night and the rest of the week was spent doing “dirty” work like painting the rudder post joint to help prevent the…
After spending the first half of the week changing the oil, replacing some rotten wood under the hot water heater, and taking care of rust on the rudder post (I…
Yesterday the marina I am staying at had a nautical flea market, which was perfect since I had just gone through my entire boat and was ready to get rid…