LIFE: Part 2

Archive for 2011

Current Location: Providenciales, Turks & CaicoCurrent Position: 21 44.5 N 072 17.41 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 463 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereAnother beautiful day! The sun is shining, the wind is light, and we are ambling along at about 5.5 kts average. Overnight we (Click to Read More...)

Well, I must say it’s been going pretty well. Since our longest passage we had done so far was only 24 hours, we had no idea how it was going to be. We wanted to do a long passage on our own before we set off to do the Atlantic, so we planned to do (Click to Read More...)

So, here we are, 50 miles from the nearest land, and I just saw a whale! Cool. Though unfortunately it didn’t make a reappearance, so Ceu missed it. I hope there will be others! Yesterday at 7am we departed St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands bound for the Turks and Caicos Islands some 470 (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: Charlotte Amelie, St Thomas, USVICurrent Position: 18 20.17 N 064 55.44 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 18 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereAt 7 am we set off from Charlotte Amelie for a 470 nautical mile sail to the Turks and Caicos Islands. We (Click to Read More...)

Life Part 2 was bought out of a charter fleet. That means it was pretty basic in its equipment – but its price reflected that. Now, chartering for a week or two is one thing, but living on a boat is very different. It is, after all, HOME! So like any self respecting home owner, (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: Road Town, Tortola, BVICurrent Position: 18 25.56 N 064 37.01 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 90 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereHow many times Noel had to go up the mast to complete installation of the radar??? The same amount of times I had (Click to Read More...)

The last 2 days I was on my own I was actually able to go out and not worry about the anchor, plus I had some great neighbors watching out for me. Now, remember what our salon used to look like? The salon - Before I wanted to make some cushions for my newly covered (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: Simpson's Bay, St. MartinCurrent Position: 18 2.38 N 063 5.51 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 16 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWe are now back home on Life Part2 in St Martin. We sure had a very busy month in Kelowna, visiting family and (Click to Read More...)

Yep, we are back in the land of snow. In fact, we arrived in Kelowna on Friday, and had an awesome powder day on Monday.And, of course, Ceu got to spend heaps of time with Tiago. Ceu and Tiago enjoying some snow Unfortunately I had to catch up on some business stuff, so couldn’t hit (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: St. Bart'sCurrent Position: 17 54 N 062 51.14 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 82 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereHe finally made it. We picked him up from SXM airport at 9pm, put him in our dinghy, and drove him across the bay to (Click to Read More...)