"When I am old I'll tell you are story, but now that I am young, I must live one....." -Pete Grundvig
This is a read-only archive of our sailing log, 2015–2019. Comments, the newsletter and the contact form are closed.
Sara and I returned from our trip to the Great White North. (More on that later.) We were relieved to find that Hiraerth had survived Hurricane Irma without a single scratch inside or out. The next two weeks were a whirlwind as we recommissioned systems, addressed an issue with our head, reconnected with old friends …
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The day started well. We left Pelican Bay, Cayo Costa, just west of Fort Myers, Florida, at 0630 for the best tides. Our safety inlet was Venice which we reached around 1245. It was a nice sail with east-northeast winds around ten knots. I kept the motor running to boost our speed since we wanted …
Read the postI've been trying to figure out how to get all our Garmin tracks on one Google Map and I think I've finally figured out how using a tool called GPSBabel to reduce the number of points on each track and then merge them together. Here's the result with a few pictures embedded as well.
Read the postWe got into Beaufort on Tuesday the 8th of November. We were pretty tired but excited to see some new friends we made on the way down. Santa Mojo and her crew is another Alberg 30 from Canada. We first saw them in Portsmouth and were really excited because they have the same boat. Soon …
Read the postWe're finally starting the trip down the coast. We left the Magothy on the 20th of October and today we pulled into Hampton River, just a hop skip and a jump from the start of the ICW. We've had quite the adventure getting here already, I can't imagine what's in store for us the rest …
Read the postLast week we had the opportunity to set sail from Fort Lauderdale, FL down to Biscayne Bay for a whole week. We went with the Blue Water Sailing School on a Dufour Gib' Sea 43 captained by Jaye. It was a great experience, we got used to sleeping, traveling, cooking and maintenance on a boat. …
Read the postOver Labor Day weekend we took a class at Annapolis Sailing School to begin learning how to sail a sailboat. We spent three days going over the basic physics of sailing, all the different parts of a small keelboat, safety procedures, and basic navigation. By the end of the week we were performing sailing drills …
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