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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…
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…
As I checked the weather for our crossing of the Anegada Passage, I realized we might be able to fulfill a dream I have had since I got to the…
It is a tiny, uninhabited island that no one ever talks about, much less ever visits….WHICH of course has made me dream of visiting for the last six years. In…
Yesterday I finished a charter with a great family and my girlfriend, Melek, flew back into town. It is time for us to start a six-week cruise down island. Half…
Well that is a funny story. It all came about at the beginning of my second-year chartering. I was doing the famous “Captain’s Drink of the Day”, but needed more…
[Shane – So what did Melek think of her week aboard with me? Let’s find out] I have sailed on a boat before (but it was around 20 years ago)…
[Shane – Melek hits it square on the head. Exactly what I have written several times] Sometimes we can fear something with no real reason and hesitate to try it!…
[Shane – Here is another blog by Melek.] Of course, there are many nice things about being on a boat; sea, sun, turtles, nature… But for me the best thing…
[Shane – my girlfriend was able to visit me from Turkey a couple weeks ago and she has written a couples blogs for you guys to read. Enjoy!] When you’re…
On Sunday I laid a bombshell down that I would only be chartering next season until around April 15th and said you had to come back today to learn why….
As many of you know this is my sixth year of runny charters in the Virgin Islands. I know I have been fortunate to travel in the offseason to some…
If you are every sailing on the south side of St Thomas you might see what looks like a large schooner to the west. This is Sail Rock. It is…
As many of you know I am in the beginning of my off season. One of the the things I did was vacuum sealed almost anything cloth including the pillow…
Those of you that know me well might be surprised to hear that one of my favorite times while on charter is when we have the captain’s “drink of the…
I was reading a post on Facebook with a letter attributed to George Carlin. He very elegantly mused as to why our society has bigger houses but smaller families, has…
I got the perfect Mother’s Day gift for my mom. You see one of my wonderful guest spent a good portion of her charter walking beaches, which is not unusual…
This is the final blog about much less crowded locations outside of the BVI you can visit. Let me know if you have enjoyed this short series. HISTORY – A…
On Sunday I started a blog about different things to see outside of the BVI if you want to get away from the crowds. Today I am going to continue…
If you want to partake in beach bars and a very cool and fun party scene then the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a great place to visit. Almost every…
During the winter season a lot of my guest tell me they had a great time attending the Michael Beans Show at Leverick Bay, which is a pirate beach party…
So on Tuesday I told you how I found treasure in the waters of Norman Island. Well today I want to tell you about something else I saw in the…
I made this minute or so long sailing school video to help show how easy it is to pick up a mooing when you are on a charter boat or…
Last week I had some guest come back for another adventure. Last time they were here we cruised around the Spanish Virgin Islands and this time we spent 10 days…
Do you see a pattern with the above quotes? It is the absence of action because one is scared of what they have not experienced. As I tell my sailing…
Four to five miles from Christiansted on the north coast of St Croix is Buck Island Reef National Monument established in 1961. If you have a chance you do not…
Do you see a pattern with the above quotes? It is the absence of action because one is scared of what they have not experienced. As I tell my…
When you visit a boat there are things you must learn and get accustomed to like having a cabin consist of only a bunk, small closet, and just enough room…
I was going to write a blog about my boat being my home, but after the excitement of Sunday night I have an urge to share my happiness that the…
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 have had the last couple weeks off due to a canceled charter and after spending more than the first half of the time in Charlotte Amalie taking care of…
A lot of people say that anchoring is one of the things that intimidate them the most as a new sailor. I am here to assure you that it is…
When I wake up each morning I walk out to the cockpit and see the shore with its amazing sandy beaches and green landscape rising up….its a rough life. I…
People often ask how ended up on a boat, since I was born and raised in Dallas and spent half my life in Denver. What they don’t realize is…
A couple months ago I was sleepy when something hit my boat. Turns out another boat drug anchor and was sitting right on top of me. As I walk to…
If everybody had a boat Across the U. S. A. Then everybody’d be sailin’ Like the Caribbean You’d seem ’em wearing their glasses Sundowners in hand the wind blowing through…
Don’t get me wrong I understand that plastic is what makes a lot of our technology possible with its light weight and moldable qualities, but that is not what I…
When I have guest aboard I love cooking for them and usually will do 3 dinners during a 7 night charter. But what about the other 4 nights you may…
So, for the last couple days the wind has all but dies here in the Virgin Islands. With very light winds all the boats at anchor drift in different directions….
Today I was asked a question I get all the time and that is “does it rain a lot and should I bring my rain gear?” The truth is that…
When my friend and her family were with me we anchored off the west coast of Vieques for two nights. On the second day a thunderstorm came in and the…
One day this summer I was anchored in the harbor of Charlotte Amalie with the wind blowing a steady 25 knots. I was just hanging out on the boat cleaning…
There is nothing more awesome than cruising up to a long stretch of shore and having it all to yourself. You pick the perfect spot, so you can enjoy the beach…
Now a days, in order to see the world you must have one thing….a passport. This official booklet from your country of citizenship is required to visit almost any other…
Everyone has a place in their home where they throw loose change. Mine is a ceramic pirate rum bottle my father made when I was just a wee sailor (1…
Here in the Virgin Islands I start seeing jelly fish in mid July and August is when they really are around. What I see almost every time is moon jelly…
Everyone, I am always trying to improve my website in order to entice readers to continue to return day after day. With that said what I am going to try…
If I would have been thinking about it I would have known the Germany was going to be in the World Cup final. This is not due to my vast…
I have always been a fan of snorkeling and seeing wild life in its natural setting. Now in California, where I am from, sad to say you don’t often see…
The local store specializing in pirate stuff (and where I got a lot of the decorations for the pirate cabin) is closing in a couple months. This is a total…
One day I was sitting on the boat and I saw a fellow cruiser puttering slowly near my boat, so I got up and checked out what he was doing….
I have been blessed to see whales 3 times and swim with dolphins this year. Here is some footage of these amazing creatures. Enjoy and book a charter this summer…
Everyone, My latest article to be published is about my trip through the Spanish VI and was published in Cruising Outpost’s Spring 2014 issue. If you would like to read…
Before I sent it to some magazines to publish, I would like to share the walking map of historic Charlotte Amalie I wrote to my loyal readers. Enjoy! CHARLOTTE AMALIE…
I can’t believe the colors we see down here sometimes!!!! This was taken at my favorite anchorage in the Virgin Islands…Salt Pond Bay.
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…
Cruz Bay is the western bay and town on St John. It is important because it is the easiest place to check into the US. When you are entering…
Every now and then everyone falls into a funk, including me. I try to have a positive “go with the flow” attitude, but once in a while I fall into…
Last Sunday afternoon my friend Chase stopped by to see if I wanted to hit the beach with him before he shipped out. So I jumped on his boat and…
Sometimes it is the littlest things that get us thinking about how much we enjoy something. For me it is living on a boat. Even with the endless list of…
Even though I have the same boat and I am the same person cruising and chartering are completely different approaches to boating. When I am cruising the pace is very…
Thanksgiving in the islands is a wonderful thing. The weather is warm, the water is blue, and the palm trees cast a cooling shadow. I was lucky enough to be…
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…
The highlight of this week was seeing the third item I put on my “must see” list before I left on this trip…The Hermitage on Cat Island. Father Jerome (1876-1956)…
If you remember from last week my dinghy broke down at the Rum Cay salt pond entrance (3 miles away from my anchorage at Port Nelson), so after church Ted…
I am very excited to let everyone know I uploaded the first two episodes of “Aboard the Guiding Light”. These are 4-7 minute travel videos I will be releasing every…
Hi, my name is Michael, and I live in Loveland Colorado. I boarded Guiding Light on April 8 and Shane offered to let me write the week’s worth of our…
This week Michael and I toured the Jumentos and Ragged Island chain. We did not leave until Tuesday, because of the front I mentioned last week. Before we left we…
This week was a slow week waiting for my new Honda 2000 generator. It has taken longer than expected to get it, but as of Friday it is now on…
Last week I left you knowing Eric, Marilyn, and I sailed to Long Island. It turned out to be my favorite island so far, because of all the sights. On…
I spent most of this week in George Town. This is the hub of cruising in the lower Bahamas. Right now there are between 275 and 350 boat in the…
Ok everyone, this week was about hanging out in the best community in the Bahamas (in my limited opinion), BLACK POINT. As I said last week the Texas Navy moved…
Rusty and Linda wanted to watch the Super Bowl at Staniel Cay since they had friends on two boats that were going to be there from the north. It turns…
Have I got an ending to this week for you, but you have to hear the early part of the week first. Rusty & Linda, still from Sea Yawl Later,…
After the front came through last Sunday I picked up anchor and high tailed it to Black Point in order to attend church there. It was quite enjoyable and I…
Well here we are at the end of another week. I am anchored in between Big and Little Major Spot waiting for a front to pass tonight. This anchorage is…
This was a great week. To finish off my visit of Normans I snorkeled the plane and went to a small cave, which was littered with conch shells. I headed…
On Sunday the Fosters and I hung out at Rose Island and went to the beach, snorkeled the reefs, and explored with the dinghy. We headed back to Nassau around…
This week Rachel (the 14 year old daughter of Jim & Bluie) has agreed, with a bit of persuading :), to write the weekly blog. I will add comments as…
This week I thought I would let Bluie Foster (the mom of the family who is sailing with me this week and next) provide a recap of our activities. Hey! …
I snuck into Miami before a strong cold front hit the area. I dropped my anchor on the south side of the Venetian Causeway between Di Lido and Riva Alto…
On Sunday I met a representative of the Seven Seas Sailing Association in order to pick up boxes of books donated for schools in The Bahamas. I originally stated I…
The constant chop at the exposed anchorage in Titusville was starting to get on my nerve, but I had to wait until a battery temperature sensor arrived. On Thursday I…
After church (and a healthy breakfast of donuts) Dad and I went to NASA for the day. He had taken me when I was 8-10 so it was fun to…
On Sunday we all slept in and relaxed until my dad and I went to church. After that we walked around St Mary’s and Lennie found a washer and dryer…
On Sunday we all milled around until noon. At that time Mark said his goodbyes and we headed offshore for an overnight to Charleston. We started with 20-25 knots from…
We left Manteo on Halloween morning and headed for Oakracoke, but the winds were a bit too much on the nose, so instead of a southwest route we went westward…
We rented a car and picked my dad up from the airport. On Tuesday we went to the historic triangle and saw Jamestown (the first permanent English settlement), Williamsburg (preserved…
This week I finished up my annual haul out and I think it was successful (although expensive). I had the bottom scraped and painted, the sail drives serviced, replaced three…
For the last two weeks I have been hanging out with the other boats in my anchorage in Spa Creek. This is a great place as it is in the…
On Sunday I decided to bike 14 miles round trip in order to see Lucy the Elephant. This is a six story building built in 1881. It was a fun…
New York was amazing, but we had to work around rainy weather the whole time. On Sunday we motored through Hell’s Gate with the current and had great views of…
Mystic, CT was a great place to visit. I had pizza at Mystic Pizza twice. It is the same place the movie of the same name staring Julia Roberts is…
Well this week found me stuck in Newport, RI with the gooseneck pulling away from the mast. Chuck, the rigger from Rig Pro, could not get to me until Tuesday…
This week was all about traveling north to Nantucket. We sailed 40-60 miles a day and stayed the night at Ocean City, NJ, Manasquan Inlet, Fire Island Inlet (very pretty),…
My buddy boat decided to get a slip on Monday, so we had access to the swimming pool, which was very nice. The raw water pump came in on Tuesday…
We made it to Elizabeth City, which is supposed to be the “harbor of hospitality”. The area is very nice, but if there were two other boats with us the…
We started the week off by getting a ferry across the Ocracoke Inlet to Portsmouth, which is a ghost town ran by the National Park Service. The town was established…
This week we have been to four different places. First, we spent an extra day in Swansboro, because we got a late start on several things and would not have…
There was a lightning strike close to the boat in Ft Lauderdale and it fried the old chart plotter (a GPS and electronic map combo) antenna. This is why you…
We arrived at Charleston on an outgoing tide so the current was against us as we went up the Ashley River. It took a while, but we made it to…
Melissa and I drove the boat up the ICW to St Augustine so we could pick up our newest crew member, Veronika, from the Jacksonville Airport. We also met up…
Melissa and I left Ft Lauderdale on Tuesday morning, because I had a dental cleaning on Monday afternoon at my friend’s office. After the appointment we went to see Iron…
Chase went with my friend to Ft Lauderdale so he could see a friend and find some quick work. That left Melissa and I alone on the boat and 70 miles…
We left Marathon and on a whim decided to go to a light to see if there were any fish. What we ended up with was a great reef (best I…
Last week we were in Key West for the whole week waiting for the 20-30 knot winds to die down. I visited the southern most point in the continental US,…
My friend decided to join us on Monday in Naples for the rest of the week. We had an amazing beach with more seashells than you could imagine. We also…
We got to Pine Island (near Ft Myers) on Monday and Chase showed up in a rented car on Tuesday so we took care of some errands. On Wednesday Russ…
My new crew member, Russ, joined me on Monday and we hung out in Pensacola with his friend Walt until we sailed to Destin on Friday. The sail started with…
Roberts Bayou was the absolutely perfect place to spend Easter morning. The entrance was very narrow, but once you get in it opens up and has houses on the shore…
This week I left New Orleans. I have Jim and Blieu from Missouri and Erin from New Orleans aboard. Jim and Blieu are thinking about getting a Lagoon and wanted…
We took the boat out for the first time since I got it to the Houston area. I have also been busy working on a chart holder and getting an…
We left Anagada Monday because I had a very bad wi-fi connection and went back to Leverick Resort in North Sound. We sailed and got the boat to 8.7 knots…
(by Steph) Hello, I have the distinct honor of being the first crew person and the first lady to sail under Capt. Shane. I hale from Golden CO, Shane’s old…
I flew to Washington, DC for work this week. I was out in Reston, which is a western suburb. It was a productive week at work, but nothing too exciting. …