All Hands On Deck   Adventures on land and at sea

Let’s finish this story. When I last wrote, Lee, Kurt and I had completed our crossing from St. Kitt’s to Curacao. We anchored in a snug little spot but were out of there shortly after breakfast the next morning. After making sure the boat yard that would be hauling Pirat had space for us in […]

Finally, I’m getting to the part where we actually go sailing! Lee, his dad Kurt, and I left Basseterre in the early morning on Monday March 18. It wasn’t that early, really, more like 6:30-7am by the time Lee replaced our head pump, which had randomly failed overnight. We had food, water, and fuel but […]

Now comes the hard part. Once Pirat was in the water, Lee and I had our work cut out for us getting her ready to sail. Fortunately, Port Zante Marina had very reasonable rates and an excellent location relative to downtown Basseterre. We didn’t feel rushed and no longer had to drive our rental car […]

Argh! I wrote this whole great post in St. Kitt’s before Pirat’s latest voyage last week but then my computer trackpad decided to stop working so I couldn’t do much with my post. Let’s start over, shall we. Here’s the beginning. It will take me a few posts to catch up to where we are […]

Firstly, here is a long overdue photo album of pictures from Puerto Rico to St. Kitts. All the way to St. Kitts   It felt weird to put Pirat in a hole on an island and then leave. I can either think of the boat as buried or as hibernating in a strange nest. I’ll […]

Just like that, Lee and I have left Pirat and are flying back to the real world – a non-floating world of regular life things and regular places, a world where the questions “Where are you from?” and “What is your address?” are a bit easier to answer. We won’t be defying classification as tourists […]

Life doesn’t stop when we get off of the boat, although sometimes it seems like it. I’m glad to be staying in a hotel for these few days on St. Kitts but I feel kind of defeated by not being able to stay on the boat. The heat and the bugs were just too much. […]

Sandy Point at dawn with the volcano to the right. That’s the formal name for the island of St. Kitts. Don’t as me how Christopher was shortened to Kitts. I’ve forgotten most of my linguistics. Lee and I got a little antsy in St. Martin after a few days. We spent quite a bit of […]

This past week has been a bit of a blur. I think the heat blurs the days together. One island melts into the next in our trip through strung-together countries. We left the rustic Spanish Virgins in sticky heat and glassy water. Visiting St. John by boat was much more satisfying than flying there. We […]

St. Martin! We finally made it to an island where they speak French! It’s great – I can actually understand people! Lee, me dad, and I arrived here yesterday after an exhausting overnight sail from Virgin Gorda. We had some good adventures in the Virgin Islands that I’ll have to cover later when I have […]