Since our last entry a great deal of water—and land—has flowed under the keel! We post this from the ski slopes of Whistler in Canada, but we did not get here by boat! Instead of sailing this winter, we are midway through a land-based road trip. But grand sailing plans for 2023 and beyond are … More One if by Land: Road Trip!
Genevieve rested, like a Snow Bird, in Ft Lauderdale while we headed to Blighty for a few weeks over the New Year. But in early February we pulled away from our home-away-from-home dock in Florida to re-explore the Bahamas, the destination to which we first took Genevieve in 2016…read on. Despite the fact that we … More It’s Bluer in the Bahamas…
Genevieve now floats peacefully in Port Jefferson Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island after a long, fun, varied journey–some of it meandering through familiar islands, some of it on the open North Atlantic. Read on… In February, we had limited options heading north from Antigua due to COVID border restrictions, which made it impossible to … More Homeward Bound
We are back on-board Genevieve after a long Summer and Fall of lock-down in New York, eager to broaden our horizons and continue our journey north through the Caribbean chain, and out into the big Atlantic Ocean… We had a very quiet, isolated, but industrious summer in New York. We landscaped the garden at 4 Bay, built a … More Inching North…
Currently, we have the perfect isolation bubble. The self-sufficient, prepper’s dream, Genevieve is a long swim from shore, her lockers well-stocked, and no febrile indication that she has taken on a Corona stowaway. But let’s rewind. While Genevieve slept in Peakes Yard, Trinidad & Tobago, John and I had an autumn of land-based exploration … More Isolated Sailing
Its taken us a little while, but finally here is a video of our adventures sailing south from the BVI to Trinidad, exploring along the way: St Martin, St Barths, Antigua, Nevis, St Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, and Grenada. Lots of friends joining in the … More Genevieve in the Caribbean 2019
It’s been a long slog, but Genevieve is finally back to fighting form: re-rigged, re-fitted, shiny as new, and ready to sail. And what better way to test her mettle than to take her on a non-stop 1500-mile Atlantic romp from Fort Lauderdale to the British Virgin Islands? So, on December 31, 2018, after months … More Hooked on Sailing
Experience our adventures via our new video of our 2017 BVI trip…
Genevieve is still laying on her side, and will be for a few more weeks yet. The Nanny Cay boat yard is working on righting all the felled boats and have made great progress. Unfortunately there are a couple of really big yachts hemming us in, and in order to lift these, the yard needs … More Fingers Tapping…
Finally we have some up-close shots of Genevieve and we can see that she is still more or less in one piece! She is leaning forward and on her side, which means the part of the hull that is on the ground is a forward, strongly built part. That is good. Also her rudder–a potentially … More Down, But Not Out
We finally have some news. We saw this picture this morning of the Nanny Cay storage area. Most boat are toppled and it looks bad, but Genevieve is identifiable. She is on her ear, leaning over about 30 degrees and it looks like the mast is still up. We won’t know the extent of damage … More Now We Know, Kinda
Genevieve took a direct hit from hurricane Irma and we have not received any direct confirmation of how she did or even if she is still a boat rather than a pile of twisted stainless and fiberglass. Tortola was slammed and most people lost their homes, and some lost loved ones, so our First World … More Poor Virgin Islands!
We left Genevieve sleeping on land in Nanny Cay, British Virgin Islands. We have been enjoying our Summer at West Gilgo, but poor Genevieve is about to be slammed by Category 5 Hurricane Irma. We left her fully prepped to survive a blow, but a Cat 5 is an outrageously powerful storm that will flatten … More Irma is Coming!
This from 21º 19’.113N, 065º29’.442W, or in other words, 1000 miles out from Fort Lauderdale with only 200 to go to St Thomas, US Virgin Islands on this seven-day ocean adventure via the non-stop, way out there “I-65” route. We have not seen another ship in the North Atlantic Ocean for four days…the crew of … More Big Sail
Winter is on its way and we are outta here! And to get “outta here” we are undertaking our most ambitious and longest ocean passage yet: a non-stop, 1100 mile sail into the Atlantic from Florida to the Virgin Islands. Read on… We left NY just as the chill arrived in late October. We drove to Genevieve in … More Watch Out Virgins…
Despite sitting right in the path of hurricane Matthew, Genevieve came through the storm unscathed as far as we can tell from marina reports from Georgia. Matthew gave us a bit of a scare, but we had left Gen in a very safe marina and had prepared her assuming a storm or two would visit … More Genevieve Takes on Matthew…and Wins!
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