Of all the possibilities of things that could go wrong, that of watching Madame Geneva float away after kayaking to a remote rocky coral beach off the coast of Esperanza was not one of them. Not even a flicker on the radar. So when Justin, half submerged in water with his snorkel mask stuck to […]
Todos bien. We’re all good. Storms are either fizzling or whipping up the Atlantic far far away. This crew is at ease in so many ways. I dove and reattached the bow thruster hull plate yesterday. Done. Chased wires to find the cause of the windlass failure. A tiny cut in the hot brown wire […]
Here we go. It’s getting to the meaty part of hurricane season where every “invest” by NOAA is a potential LO worth investigating. There is a formula to this as tropical waves roll off of Africa’s west coast and IF the Sahara dust is light and IF there are sea surface temps conducive to LO […]
Kelly and I are sleeping well. Deep, exhausted sleep. The kind where I only wake up when my arm is completely numb and bloodless because I’ve passed out on it and have to drag it out from under me with my other arm to get the feeling and movement back. My own personal coyote mornings. […]
We got the call from Otto late on Saturday that he was stopping for fuel in San Juan and then continuing on to his final destination. The radio silence that proceeded this call seemed irrelevant; we were heading east on Sunday, Justin’s birthday, to meet up with Madame Geneva! He mentioned that the bow thruster wasn’t […]
What is she doing? I never know what she is doing…* Tracking Madame Geneva from her dip back into the drink on Friday to her ultimate destination on the eastern side of Puerto Rico is rather unnerving. When she left the coast of Florida, the Iridium Go email notification of where she is at all […]
This has been a great week! So much for our sailing adventure. Looks like we’re Puerto Rican locals now. OK, so there’s lots of room for improvement with our Spanish speaking but we are getting better and its fun. Uncle Joey joined us last week. We took the entire day to visit Old San Juan, […]