We’re Back! Life + Boat Work Update
COVID has drastically delayed the bulk of our upgrades due to supply and labor shortages, so we’ve been left scrambling. Luckily… (read more)…
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Sabado’s 2021 Haul Out
Ray did an excellent job maneuvering the boat, despite battling a bit of wind. We nearly hit a cement corner at one point, but I was able to get a fender in place just in time so no harm was done! 4 guys helped us handle lines and get the straps in place, then… (read more)…
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Navigation Station Transformation
In typical boat project fashion, we discovered several other issues along the way and even broke a few things in the process… (read more)…
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Cleaning + Organizing Our Home
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 6/13/2021 - 6/20/2021 One of my goals for this hurricane season is to optimize our storage space on board, but our irregular shaped shelves have always made that tough. In the past, we’ve used some trays and baskets, but no combination of those seemed to fit properly… (read…
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Our Overnight Sail to Cape Canaveral... Let the boat work begin!
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 6/6/2021 - 6/13/2021 We had a great sail, with an average of 11kn winds and a SOG of 7.5-8.5kn through midnight, when the wind… (read more)…
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A Short Sail + A Crew Reunion!
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/30/2021 - 6/6/2021 The wind started to die a bit, so we swapped out the jib for a code zero, and ended up gaining another knot of speed… (read more)…
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Our Overnight Passage to the USA
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 5/9/2021 - 5/16/2021 We quickly evaluated our options- with nothing really between Palm Beach and Cape Canaveral, if we decided to keep sailing North we might as well go all the way up to the Chesapeake… but that didn’t make much sense because we have reservations to haul o…
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Heading North
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 4/25/2021 - 5/2/2021 We sailed through the squall, only to realize we had sprung a leak during! I noticed it when I went into the salon to make lunch- there was a little wet spot on the ottoman- and sure enough, a matching wet spot on… (read more)…
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Time to Turn Around!
A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 4/18/2021 - 4/25/2021 The town was in ruins. We all stood there for a minute, a bit confused… nearly every building was crumbling and it seemed like all the people who used to live there had been replaced by... goats? None of us had realized that… (read more)…
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