The following two weeks were some serious work weeks for me and were intense with end of quarter upon me. AND yes, I stayed very disciplined and focused during the work week (believe it or not – just ask Kirk!) Kirk kept quite busy with maintaining the sailboat which is a bit of a thankless job. If you don’t do […]

Logistics from week one nailed down – time to leave Nanny Cay Marina and Explore Norman Island – a short one hour sail across the channel. Headed out early Thursday morning – like before 8am – early for Lisa (just sayin’) Of course the winds were kicking up once we left the marina at 25-30 knots. Remember, we like 10-15 […]

So many questions to ask and answer… What’s your WIFI ?– critical to not use every bit of data allotted to me on Verizon for 1 month:  5 gig of data, 250 minutes and 1000 sent texts. Sounds like a lot of texting but have you ever paid attention to the first text and then the 6  after -thought texts […]

Arrived at Nanny Cay Marina right around 4PM to a fairly large welcoming committee at the Dock – most of our new neighbors jumped up to help bring us into our slip securely.  Great job by Captain Kirk. First order of business for Kirk – hose down the boat and get all of the salt water off asap.  My first […]

Recalling we only have 1/2 a windscreen as we sailed off of the ship, thinking- how bad can that be?…if the winds were 10-12 knots that would have been just fine.  However they were blowing about 25-35 knots with seas of 4-6 feet.  So about every 15 minutes, it felt like someone was dousing you with a 1/2 bucket of […]

 Week of March 7th,  We are to meet Salted Rim in St. Thomas on 3/11 at 6:30am.  Lisa is still positively “positive” with COVID with an unwavering dry cough (remnants of COVID) SO here’s the deal:  No Negative Test =No Entry into the BVIs.  I had COVID three weeks prior but still tested positive 4 days in a row.  Finally […]

So in advance of the ship arriving in St. Thomas, Kirk had to sail the Salted Rim from Sarasota to Ft. Lauderdale where she would be floated on to the ship for safe passage to St. Thomas.  I was not 100% recovered from COVID and doing a 3 day sail straight through was not appealing at that time (or dare […]