Sunset sessions, hospitals, and lots of smiles
Hard work and a lot of partying and plenty of entertainment in between as we cruise up the windward isles in the Caribbean
Pole dancing under the Lunar Eclipse
The Pitons, St. Lucia, Day 3, first Adventure. What a difference a group makes. After 5 frantic days of repairs, provisioning, getting Clinton back from Florida and Joaquin Hubbard, our good friend from Seattle down to help fill the departed chef’s shoes it’s been all laughs. These guys are wild! I met Cory, his wife…
In between days
Rodney Bay, St Lucia. 6 days between trips sounds like a decent amount of time to prepare, but this week has been crazy. A number of inevitable boat projects, provisioning, cleaning and cleaning and cleaning… Trisha, our new chef had to return home to be with her father who is struggling with cancer. A bad…
The First Epic!!!
Day 11 first Epic, Grenadines. About half the quiver! For almost two years The Best Odyssey has been mostly a dream that 11 days ago became a reality with the first dive off the deck into turquoise 80 degree water and just keeps getting better. This isn’t a pitch — this is paradise found. Kitesurfing…
Quick Update
This is just a quick one as I’ve been too swamped to write a proper log documenting our landfall. We arrived in form after 16 and a half days in Trinidad. Incredible sail- our good luck carried us through to the end. Jody joined Discovery from the States last Wednesday the 24th, the crew disembarked…
Landfall
We’ve had a catastrophe aboard Discovery. Nothing broken, no one lost at sea, but still a disaster. We lost our best lure. Besides that we spaced getting proper swivels, so the remainder of our lures our useless – they just spin around endlessly until the fishing line is so screwed up (literally) that a fish couldn’t get it even if he wanted it. We have had a few flying fish hit the deck at night, so we’ll have to use one as bait if we’re to land any more fish. Gruesome tale, I know.
Mid Atlantic
Not much drama to report. With easing winds we’ve slowed enough to finally nab a couple nice Mahi-Mahi, or Dorado as they are called in the Atlantic. A gorgeous fish, both to look at and to eat. The first was caught and on our plates with an asian salad accompaniment within an hour. My kind of sailing.
Cat reflections
Day 4 out of Lanzarote. 2200 miles to go. We’re experiencing about the most steady trade conditions I’ve sailed in. Last year I made a solo delivery from Santos, Brazil to St Maarten in the Caribbean which was 33 days at sea, and the last 10 days of that trip we’re certainly great sailing conditions,…
Day 2 out of Lanzarote. 150 miles off the coast of Mauritania.
We made Lanzarote on the afternoon of New Year’s Day after a fantastic 9 days at sea, primed and ready for a nice fiesta but we forgot that in Spanish culture people don’t got out until WELL after midnight. In fact the only people out as the New Year rang in seemed like the bloated…
Imminent Landfall
Day 8. 190 Miles from Lanzarote. We cleared Gibraltar two days ago on a nice force 5 Northeast wind. I hadn’t sailed in that kind of traffic since passing through the Torres Straits, between Australia and Papau New Guinea back in 2004. Tim actually took a picture of the radar screen on his watch, with…