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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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/13/2020 - 12/20/2020 We were shocked at the level of service they provided. They even came by the next day and took our old batteries to dispose of them for us! If you ever need a marine electrician… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/6/2020 - 12/13/2020 Unfortunately, Tuesday night we were woken up by the low battery alarms. Turns out the only reason our batteries had been fine the past few days was because we had consistent wind, but once that died, so did our batteries. This means they… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 11/29/2020 - 12/5/2020 Under full main and jib, our SOG was 7kn and we figured we’d hit about 10kn once we turned downwind, making our ETA in West Palm Beach before sunrise and we… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 10/25/2020 - 11/1/2020 We decided to leave St. Augustine that day, and made a 22hr trip to Cape Canaveral. We started out motoring, but… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 10/18/20 - 10/25/20 I was able to provision and fix up some of our decor (we’re trying to make Sabado more home-y), and Ray replaced our reefing line, serviced both engines + the generator, and fixed… (read more)…
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