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Azores to Portugal Passage Blog

Azores to Portugal Passage Blog

Posted on July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 by Mike

Daily updates (and photos!) from our passage from Ponta Delgada on São Miguel in the Azores to Cascais in Portugal.

Posted in Animals, Europe, Passage Making, Sailing Life, Seamanship Tagged 2024, Azores, Europe, passage making, sailing, sailing life
Going the rest of the way

Going the rest of the way

Posted on June 30, 2024July 14, 2024 by Mike

Another big passage ahead of us.

Posted in Europe, Passage Making, Sailing Life, Seamanship Tagged 2024, Azores, passage making, Portugal
Passage to Antigua

Passage to Antigua

Posted on December 1, 2022December 2, 2022 by Mike

While on passage to Antigua, we posted daily updates on our progress and things going on to the PredictWind tracker. Since we’ll be shutting down that tracker shortly, we’ve copied those posts here and added photos and videos.

Posted in Sailing Life, Seamanship, Travel
The weather window is Open. Antigua here we come!

The weather window is Open. Antigua here we come!

Posted on November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 by Mike

Our 44 hour sail down to Cape Lookout was a great chance for our new crew-mate to get used to life on passage, and arriving for a few days on the beach with warm weather felt positively tropical. Almost like we had a mini-version of the passage to Antigua. Anticipating a spell of bad weather, Continue Reading

Posted in Sailing Life, Seamanship, Travel
Boat Project: Autopilot

Boat Project: Autopilot

Posted on August 31, 2022October 2, 2022 by Mike

A project in the works for a long time adds a big element of redundancy to our autopilot.

Posted in Boat Work, Seamanship
Downbound (the Welland Canal)

Downbound (the Welland Canal)

Posted on July 27, 2022July 30, 2022 by Mike

It was easier than descending Niagara Falls…

Posted in Animals, Great Lakes, Sailing Life, Seamanship, Travel
Big Current

Big Current

Posted on June 17, 2022June 17, 2022 by Mike

Current on the lake(??) keeps us at the dock for another night.

Posted in Sailing Life, Seamanship, Travel
La Mer Douce

La Mer Douce

Posted on June 5, 2022July 8, 2022 by Mike

“La Mer Douce” (the gentle, or calm, sea) was the name that Samuel de Champlain gave to Georgian Bay. Georgian Bay is large (15,000 km2): two and half times bigger than our past stomping ground the Georgia Strait, nearly as big as Lake Ontario, and certainly could have been named the sixth great lake rather Continue Reading

Posted in Anchorages, Georgian Bay, Great Lakes, Sailing Life, Seamanship, Travel
Making Water

Making Water

Posted on August 22, 2021January 7, 2022 by Mike

Our watermaker is working!

Posted in Boat Work, Seamanship Tagged boat work, sailing life, watermaker

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