A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 4/16/2023 - 4/23/2023 By lunchtime, Ray had the generator up and running again- my hero! Now that we’ve experienced this, we will update our maintenance plans for the system. Running it with a higher load (that our new power/charging system provides) and checking the filter…
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Last week we sailed to St. Croix for a change of scenery. It was a beautiful ~5.5hr sail with 15- 20kn of wind. Our average SOG was 7.5kn! Unfortunately, we were welcomed by a storm that hung around for the next few days… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/26/2023 - 5/2/2023 That night Ray and I decided at the last minute to host everyone for dinner on Sabado. We dug through our fridge and turned groceries for two into dinner for five… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/19/2023 - 3/26/2023 Unfortunately, the anchorage was rough. We scoured our charts for another option but couldn’t find anything we were interested in with good holding and adequate protection. We had planned on staying in St. Maarten for at least another week, but after b…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/12/2023 - 3/19/2023 By Thursday, Peter had removed all 25 (yes, 25!!!) thru hulls on Sabado and taken them to his shop. Upon inspection, he discovered many brass and some stainless fittings in pretty bad condition... (read more)…
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We spent the past two and a half weeks on the dock in St. Thomas while Sabado underwent a few major upgrades. Living on the boat while the work was going on was… stressful. There were a couple of days when we had no power, and the boat looked like a construction zone… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 2/12/2023 - 2/19/2023 They removed our wind turbines, making room for the new solar panels. The carpenter began modifying the compartment under our bed to accommodate our new batteries that will nearly double our capacity… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 2/5/2023 - 2/12/2023 We woke up the following day and noticed our low-battery alarms were about to go off. We were frustrated and confused. We had run our engine for 2hrs the day before and had only one refrigerator plugged in! Our current batteries were becoming more and m…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/29/2023 - 2/5/2023 I saw him turn on the outside lights, so I got up to make sure everything was okay. We had left the dinghy in the water overnight, and one of the painters was stuck on what we assumed to be Sabado’s propeller. We got the boat hook out and tried to free…
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