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Goodbye to the best crew ever!
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 …
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Dead engine, fishing weed, what next?
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 …
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We’re off!
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.
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Last day of preparations
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!
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Red is bad, blue is good, green is us!
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 …
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Our first radio chat room!
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 …