Sooo excited, we had a yellow breasted bird visiting us on the ocean crossing for two days. It inspired Lisa to create our boat logo art. This is superimposed for now. Need to arrange for someone to bring it down… … Continue reading Original art for our hulls
When you do an ocean crossing, there are many attributes you would look for in the perfect crew: knowledge, experience, good judgment, small footprint, multitasking, easy to live with, clean smelling, and good-natured. Lisa and Ken Karsten exhibited all these … Continue reading Goodbye to the best crew ever!
I caught your attention didn’t I? Where to start? Two days into our sail to the Bahamas from Portsmouth, VA our port engine died. Don and Ken (I gave up after a day) have been troubleshooting non stop. Low air … Continue reading Dead engine, fishing weed, what next?
We’ve crossed the ARC starting line and are off to the Bahamas. To track s/v enjoy specifically go to: https://www.worldcruising.com/carib1500/eventfleetviewer.aspx or load the ybtracker app. If you use the ybtracker app, you’ll want to go to the fleet tracker and select a Rally or Race. Choose ARC Bahamas. That information is updated every 4 hours and is talking to a little yellow tracker beacon on the back of our boat. Continue reading We’re off!
So we’re doing last minute food provisioning, tying down the extra water, diesel, and gas tanks. More headlamps and flashlights and did I mention the kayak? Our crew (Ken and Lisa Karsten) arrived in time for the skippers briefing on weather, routing, and safety. Got those mini marshmallows but can only fit a turkey breast in the freezer for Thanksgiving. Getting extremely excited! Continue reading Last day of preparations
So, in follow up to my last post about daily check-ins via SSBs, when in transit, boats must monitor Channel 16 on the maritime mobile band very high frequency (VHF) radio for emergency communications like May Day. Of course, sailors … Continue reading Red is bad, blue is good, green is us!
We were able to check in for the first time on our single sideband radio (SSB), to the 8:15 am SSCA and 8:30 am EST Cruiseheimer’s chat rooms of sorts. This is a time each day where cruisers around the … Continue reading Our first radio chat room!
Pending weather, Sailing Vessel enjoy will depart Monday for Portsmouth Virginia and depart November 5th directly offshore to Green Turtle Cay in the Abacos with the ARC Bahamas! All systems checked out today when we test sailed with Ken and … Continue reading It’s a go!
08:00:00 days left and we’re painting the props. Again… So, we had the lovely occasion to haul Enjoy out two weeks after our sail drives and props were painted (not on our dime…) And, to our shock and horror, the … Continue reading Hauled out again? We’re not pay’in…
19:00:00 days left; yesterday we did our first Costco run. Where will it all go? That’s the challenge of boat living! I found a Southwestern recipe to marinate the skirt steak and a lime cilantro marinade for the chicken. Only … Continue reading Started provisioning food today
