Author: Anne Clement

Here is the report about the new boom for the main sail. Nev and I were reluctant to make such a big change in the rigging, but our need for something easier to handle pushed the plan along. Having already sailed over 7000 miles, we had a good notion of what we wanted. It is…

It is time to start thinking of winter sailing plans. We intend to leave Rhode Island in a couple of weeks and be in the Chesapeake area until November and in the Bahamas by mid December. We’ll stay there a couple of months. All our moves will be weather dependant, so we will have no…

The computer on board has proved disappointing for e-mails and the cafe system available to me in the Caribbean early this past spring cost as much as 10 dollars per half hour so my developing computer skills made it too frustrating to use, especially when we were in foreign language areas. Now I hope to…

Leaving Norfolk, Virginia at mid morning, we caught the ebb tide out to the Atlantic for an overnight passage to Cape May, New Jersey. This bye passed the fascinating Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River which we will explore in the autumn when they are less buggy and we have more time. With John navigating,…

Part 1 If you are closely acquainted with 86 year olds, you will know how “gung ho” certain types can be. Well John Kellam, my ex and our good friend, is that type. He came aboard on April 8 with great curiosity and enthusiasm ready to go on an ocean voyage from the Virgin Islands…

The anchoring system is excellent. I was wrong to doubt it. Again though, I needed to see it working to understand. I have no idea why Bob Kupps [owner of professionally built Tiki 46 No. 3 in Thailand] thinks his sails set poorly. Maybe he is not pulling the strings right. Ours set beautifully once…