Hope's and Howard's Sailing Adventures

I know you don’t need to be told because you can see for yourselves from our tracker page, but just in case you haven’t been there today, we are now back in Nanny Cay Marina, having had a most enjoyable broad reach back from North Sound in fresh 20 to 27-knot Easterlies with the sun shining …. what more could we ask for? We flew just the genoa most of.. Read More

In between our tasks, such as setting up an improved system for our preventer lines to avoid accidental gibes when in a sea, familiarizing ourselves with the Salty Dawg weather forecasting system (using Chris Parker) daily check-in via SSB and making sure they have links to our tracking system, we have explored some more of the Bitter End. The photo of the two of us was taken while hiking the.. Read More

In between our tasks, such as setting up an improved system for our preventer lines to avoid accidental gibes when in a sea, familiarizing ourselves with the Salty Dawg weather forecasting system (using Chris Parker) daily check-in via SSB and making sure they have links to our tracking system, we have explored some more of the Bitter End. The photo of the two of us was taken while hiking the.. Read More

Through various events, Happy Hour to celebrate Cinqo de Mayo and a birthday (Jackie’s) in the Bitter End Crawl Pub on Tuesday and Michael Bean’s pirate show in Leverick Bay yesterday, we are gradually getting to know the Salty Dawg fleet. They hail from many different ports, mostly along the Eastern seaboard of the US and Canada but there is also at least one boat owned by a Scottish couple… Read More

Thank you all for whatever you did to persuade the powers that be in Nanny Cay Marina to enable us to splash the boat back into the water on Friday afternoon. We did the final touch-ups that morning and made sure all sea cocks are functioning properly but we didn’t know the yard could fit us into their schedule until we were informed around 2:30 that the boat was already.. Read More