A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/8/2022 – 5/15/2022
We lounged around in our beanbag chairs on the bow all afternoon, enjoying the sunshine and solitude until the wind began to pick up. We excitedly hoisted the main, cranked out the gennaker, and shut the engines off. We cruised along for the rest of the day with an average speed of… (read more)
I jumped in and began scraping and scrubbing from stern to bow. Just as I was starting to enjoy myself, I felt my fingers and hands start tingling…? I swam back to the ladder and realized my hands were covered in… (read more)
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/27/2022 – 4/3/2022
Recently, we began getting alarms indicating that it was time to change the filter, but when we looked, the filter was fine. After taking the whole thing apart, Ray found a check valve clogged with seaweed. It turns out the sea strainer that comes with the watermaker was… (read more)
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/21/2022 – 3/27/2022
By Friday we had reached the end of the 5 day allotment the marina had for transients, so we left that morning. Our original plan was to sail up to Sarasota, but the weather had us moving in the exact opposite direction! We decided to take the hint and… (read more)
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/13/2022 – 3/21/2022
The boat was hauling ass towards one of the private residence docks, until suddenly it wasn’t. I’ve never seen a boat come to such an abrupt stop. They had run aground. I told Ray and he grabbed the binoculars- there’s no way a race team would run aground like that- I could sense his mood change just before he said… (read more)
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/6/2022 – 3/13/2022
One moment it was calm, warm, and sunny, and the next, we were surrounded by dark clouds and 45kn of wind… (read more)
It was a tough pill to swallow; our entire plans for the year would have to change. We spent a few days pouting and trying to adjust our expectations. We missed our Gulf Stream crossing window but decided that… (read more)
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/23/2022 – 1/30/2022
We ended up spending the entire month of December begging customer service departments, contractors, and vendors to help us get everything back up and running again only to be ignored, overlooked, and even threatened. It was an expensive and discouraging month, and it was difficult to… (read more)
Another Week at the Boatyard: 11/14/2021 – 11/21/2021
Since we’re basically Florida residents at this point, we met up with a friend (who we met here last year) for lunch! We went to the local hotspot, Grills, which is just down the street from the boatyard. Both the hostess and the waiter recognized us- we’re becoming regulars… (read more)
Another Week at the Boatyard: 11/7/2021 – 11/14/2021
We headed to the boat around 9am with a long list of things we wanted to accomplish, but all of that went out the window when Ray noticed our bilge was full of oil… (read more)
