Grateful Sailing
A first overnight sail with the kids makes for a memorable Thanksgiving indeed.
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A first overnight sail with the kids makes for a memorable Thanksgiving indeed.
The charts we bought in Newfoundland for the St Lawrence River have a neat feature: a letter inside a little diamond leads you to a table in the margin that tells you what the current will be doing just there at each stage of the tide.
“The further we go, the more expensive winter storage gets, and this late in the season all the marinas and yards are shutting down. If we’re going to fail and have to leave the boat behind until spring, we’re better off getting an early start on that…”
“You two are just hiding out down there in the Caribbean,” the voice said to us, “You are not living in the real world.”
Follow along on CW associate editor Jen Brett’s winter southern cruising sojourn aboard Lyra.
Del Viento lifted on a big swell. A big gust blew. The sail slacked for a brief moment and I could feel the stern falling exactly the wrong way.
In order to put some miles in their wake, the Zartman family makes some overnight passages and is rewarded with one of nature’s best shows.
Ben Zartman reminisces on four years of cruising aboard Ganymede.
With the end of the sailing season upon them in Canada, the Zartman family needs to make tracks south before the locks close for the winter.
In the spring of 2010, I emailed John and Cindy of Port Ludlow, WA. I’d learned online that they owned Namaste, one of the dozen-or-so
One quick trip ashore and immediately you feel like you have been transported to Europe.
There was ice on Ganymede‘s decks the morning we left Harrington Harbor, which added urgency to our already ardent desire to push south and west.
A first overnight sail with the kids makes for a memorable Thanksgiving indeed.
The charts we bought in Newfoundland for the St Lawrence River have a neat feature: a letter inside a little diamond leads you to a table in the margin that tells you what the current will be doing just there at each stage of the tide.
“The further we go, the more expensive winter storage gets, and this late in the season all the marinas and yards are shutting down. If we’re going to fail and have to leave the boat behind until spring, we’re better off getting an early start on that…”
“You two are just hiding out down there in the Caribbean,” the voice said to us, “You are not living in the real world.”
Follow along on CW associate editor Jen Brett’s winter southern cruising sojourn aboard Lyra.
Del Viento lifted on a big swell. A big gust blew. The sail slacked for a brief moment and I could feel the stern falling exactly the wrong way.
In order to put some miles in their wake, the Zartman family makes some overnight passages and is rewarded with one of nature’s best shows.
Ben Zartman reminisces on four years of cruising aboard Ganymede.
With the end of the sailing season upon them in Canada, the Zartman family needs to make tracks south before the locks close for the winter.
In the spring of 2010, I emailed John and Cindy of Port Ludlow, WA. I’d learned online that they owned Namaste, one of the dozen-or-so
One quick trip ashore and immediately you feel like you have been transported to Europe.
There was ice on Ganymede‘s decks the morning we left Harrington Harbor, which added urgency to our already ardent desire to push south and west.
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