We headed to the airport- straight from marina happy hour- and flew down to the US Virgin Islands to help deliver a boat back up to Georgia. Unfortunately, the delivery fell through at the last minute, so Ray and I were forced to… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/29/2022 - 6/5/2022 We ate and drank our way through just about everything on the menu at Reid’s Apothecary, tracked down the best hot dog in town (spoiler alert: it's from two dudes with a folding table in a parking lot), and took the dinghy out to… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/22/2022 - 5/29/2022 I tackled the inside of the boat while Ray got started on the cockpit! I really should’ve taken a before picture, but Ray did a fantastic job scrubbing away some stubborn mold on our mesh sunshades and… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/15/2022 - 5/22/2022 We were happily sailing along until we heard a strange thud. Ray walked around the boat to investigate before realizing it had come from the helm. Our main halyard had slipped through the clutch. It looked like 4 inches or so of the line… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/8/2022 - 5/15/2022 We lounged around in our beanbag chairs on the bow all afternoon, enjoying the sunshine and solitude until the wind began to pick up. We excitedly hoisted the main, cranked out the gennaker, and shut the engines off. We cruised along for the rest of the…
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I jumped in and began scraping and scrubbing from stern to bow. Just as I was starting to enjoy myself, I felt my fingers and hands start tingling…? I swam back to the ladder and realized my hands were covered in… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/27/2022 - 4/3/2022 Recently, we began getting alarms indicating that it was time to change the filter, but when we looked, the filter was fine. After taking the whole thing apart, Ray found a check valve clogged with seaweed. It turns out the sea strainer that comes with…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/21/2022 - 3/27/2022 By Friday we had reached the end of the 5 day allotment the marina had for transients, so we left that morning. Our original plan was to sail up to Sarasota, but the weather had us moving in the exact opposite direction! We decided to take the hint and…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/13/2022 - 3/21/2022 The boat was hauling ass towards one of the private residence docks, until suddenly it wasn’t. I’ve never seen a boat come to such an abrupt stop. They had run aground. I told Ray and he grabbed the binoculars- there’s no way a race team would run agro…
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