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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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/6/2022 - 3/13/2022 One moment it was calm, warm, and sunny, and the next, we were surrounded by dark clouds and 45kn of wind… (read more)…
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It was a tough pill to swallow; our entire plans for the year would have to change. We spent a few days pouting and trying to adjust our expectations. We missed our Gulf Stream crossing window but decided that… (read more)…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 1/23/2022 - 1/30/2022 We ended up spending the entire month of December begging customer service departments, contractors, and vendors to help us get everything back up and running again only to be ignored, overlooked, and even threatened. It was an expensive and discouragi…
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