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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We’ve been moored in Boston for a few weeks now while I work towards getting my Captain's License. Our days have been full of studying, and nights spent exploring Boston + catching up with old friends and family. I’m in the process of studying for my final exam… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 8/14/2022 - 8/21/2022 We got soaked. The wind picked up. We put a second reef in the main, and the wind instantly began to die. We rolled our eyes, shook out that second reef, and brought the jib back out. Conditions were changing so quickly that I… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 8/7/2022 - 8/14/2022 The boat had smoke billowing around it, every boater's worst nightmare. We called them on the radio and told them we could put the dinghy in the water if they needed us, but the marina staff and fire department… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 7/31/2022 - 8/7/2022 Unfortunately, it did not go off without a hitch- our chart plotter didn’t work. We turned it off and back on again and were repeatedly met with a blank screen. ? We momentarily thought the multiple lightning storms we… (read more)…
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