A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 2/14/2021 - 2/21/2021 It turns out the boost pump is busted. After a brief panic period where we thought we’d have to head back to the States, we made a few calls and sorted out a very expensive and over complicated way to get… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 2/7/2021 - 2/14/2021 You can get your haircut or order a hotdog while you wait for your laundry, buy anything from cleaning supplies to eggs to PVC pipe from the store it’s attached to, or even take a shower and/or rent a room upstairs! Talk about… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/31/2021 - 2/7/2021 The worst of it hit Monday night, so we set up several alarms (one to keep track of our anchor, another to alert us if we moved outside of a set boundary, and a third to warn us if the wind went above 40kn) and monitored everything from the salon all ni…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/24/2021 - 1/31/2021 I think my favorite conversation was with the woman on the super yacht next to us… she looked over at another sailboat that was docked a ways away, they had sent someone up their mast to do some inspections, and looks back at us and goes “do you guys c…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/17/21 - 1/24/21 We arrived in Shroud Cay around 2pm and picked up a mooring ball. The water was beautiful, so I jumped in for a swim and dove on the mooring to make sure it was secure… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/10/21 - 1/17/21 Tuesday was our 5th day in the country so per our health visa requirements, we had to go get our 5th day COVID-19 rapid test. There was only one clinic on the island providing the test and that clinic didn’t have an address, just a vague description of its…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/3/21 - 1/10/22 Our Lyft driver on the way to the propane place was a Cuban immigrant who told us about his 3 day journey to the US with his family in a RAFT when he was 17. He talked about how scary it was, and how he lost a lot of his friends to big waves and sharks… (re…
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A 60 second glimpse into our passage from Key Biscayne, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas!…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/20/2020 - 12/27/2020 A storm blew through around 2am Christmas morning, so we got up and kept an eye on things- making sure ourselves and no one around us dragged anchor. We were seeing 28kn sustained winds, gusting above 30kn… (read more)…
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