Author: Anne Clement

After much measuring, figuring, drawing, and discussion, we gave up on the idea of using the golf cart tops for a hard Bimini awning and they are now going to be used as lobster habitat in the Sea of Abaco. So they will increase the lobster population generally and some of the lobsters will feed…

A local cruiser here in Green Turtle Cay in the Abacos, Bahamas, has a nifty way of getting free bench drills and other tools for his boat. The local dump contains some tossed out battery operated drills and other battery operated tools including dremmel drills etc. The battery packs are now dead, dead, dead and…

My Rhode Island family phoned us about their white-out snow storm while we were getting in a last grocery shop in Lake Worth, Florida. We were wearing shorts and sandals and getting ready for a very different kind of winter out in the Bahamas. It was calm that Friday night and gentle on Saturday so…

HELLO ALL WHARRAM OWNERS Pay attention now, this is terribly important. We were on the verge of GIVING UP on our soft wing sails because we could not take reefs easy enough or furl easy enough. We thought of cutting off the luff pocket and putting rope lacings to the mast. It was drastic. We…

Nov 21 Just as we were leaving Fernandina, Florida, our British friends on Meander sailed over. We had last seen them in 1993 in Madiera prior to making an Atlantic crossing in my old boat. They built their classic gaff rigged monohull and are the kind of sailors who always sail on and off their…

We left Winyah Bay near Georgetown, South Carolina after a bit of a struggle getting up both anchors which had twizzled up as they so often do in areas of strong reversing tides. Nev looked really tired up there on deck with a dragged out posture that even strong men get when they have worked…

Nov 10 Our excellent cruising friends were home when we entered Adams Creek in North Carolina. Nev, Peace, and I were treated to every pleasant and needful thing over two days. But then the wind came around right, the rig was tightened, and we shot out of the Beaufort harbor entrance and into some confused…

Oct 28 It is cold and there is only a little sunshine, but otherwise it is a grand day to be sailing a schooner down Chesapeake Bay. There are white caps and the wind is gusty off the quarter and we have all sail up doing 8 to 10 knots and that fancy, plastic cat…

The hurricane that wandered, Whilma seemed intent on frightening all our friends and relations. Thanks to all who care so much! We are just fine and we only had 45 knots of wind and lots of rain to complain about. Our Fortress 55 anchor with about 6 to 1 scope in Baltimore inner harbor, held…

Oh what a sweet boat she is. Doing 7 to 10 knots just off the Jersey shore in sparkling sunshine with main and jib on a reach in gusty winds. We COULD raise more sail and maybe impress the three boats just offshore sailing in the same direction (that makes it a race), but we…