A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/1/2023 - 1/8/2023 He was stepping from the dinghy onto Sabado when a wave hit the dinghy, moving it under the lowered davit arm and forcing Ray’s foot off. He went down, with his upper body making contact with the sugar scoop and… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/25/2022 - 1/1/2023 We went for a swim off the back of the boat before sailing over to Christmas Cove. The trip took us a couple of hours, but we had a blast! The wind was strong, and the seas were sloppy, but our family seemed to enjoy the action… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/18/2022 - 12/25/2022 Caribbean roti has South Asian roots. It’s similar to an Indian naan, chapati, or paratha served with curried or stewed meat and vegetables. We’d gotten a recommendation on where to go, so we took the dinghy downtown… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 12/11/2022 - 12/18/2022 We’ve spent our days relaxing and our evenings having cocktails with friends. It feels like a dream! At least once a day, we both say out loud, “I love it here.” ? We get a little boat maintenance done here and there, but Sabado has been well-behaved…
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At 4 pm, Ray gets an email from our weather router, looks up at me, and says, “we’re leaving tomorrow at 7 am.” We both spring into action. I start prepping food for our first few days at sea, knowing they’d be bumpy and we’d want something easy. Ray starts putting his tools away and filling our jer…
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The trip started with calm seas and fair winds. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long. Once we got offshore that afternoon, the clouds rolled in and the seas got sloppy. We motor sailed in 10-15 ft waves through the night.… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 10/13/2022 - 10/23/2022 I sat at the helm most of the morning, acclimating to avoid getting seasick. I rarely feel ill when we sail, but motoring sometimes gets me! Once I was feeling stable, I headed inside and heard an unsettling noise: water splashing inside the boat. I…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 10/9/2022 - 10/16/2022 As boat projects usually do, the job took us all day. Ray invented several new yoga poses to access the points he needed to work on, we changed our minds a few times about the approach, failed once, bled a bit, and cursed a lot… (read more)…
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(9/25/2022 - 10/9/2022) It was cold and wet, but we bundled up and decided to make another small hop South to Newport, Rhode Island. We motored along, periodically popping inside to defrost our fingers… (read more)…
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