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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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 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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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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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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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a bit confused… nearly every building was crumbling and it seemed like all the people who used to live there had been replaced by...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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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 4/11/2021 - 4/18/2021 We pulled into an empty anchorage off the uninhabited island, and were immediately approached by three guys on a small fishing boat. They said they were in need of some cooking oil, rice, and lime juice. We were the only other boat for miles, and there…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 4/4/2021 - 4/11/2021 It was interesting to hear from a local business owner about the impacts of past hurricanes and now COVID-19. He maintained a positive and relaxed outlook through it all, and said he’ll continue to serve ice cream everyday “until people stop coming”… (r…
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A Week Aboard S/V Sabado: 3/28/2021 - 4/4/2021 We had winds gusting up to 30kn, and boats dragging anchor left and right. We alternated between watching zombie movies and watching the boats around us. We even heard several reports of nearby… (read more)…
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