Short video of a sail upwind with discussions on sailing to weather and hydrogenerators.
Sailing hard on the wind from Two Fish on Vimeo.
Going to Weather
Naked Woman Astern
It was past one o’clock in the morning and I was standing on our stern steps with a flashlight beckoning a naked woman I have never met to come aboard. While swimming, she was yelling at a guy in a dinghy “Go away, you want to kill me”. Gail was on the VHF speaking to the Grenadian Coast Guard. How did we end up in this mess? We were anchored in Prickly Bay on the South end of Grenada. It is a large anchorage, popular with cruisers. Early in the […]
The Antares 44i Water System
Our greatest luxury and key comfort on Two Fish is fresh water. It is wonderful to be able to shower after ocean swims or before a long watch, to wash away salt from the deck, and, of course, to drink, make ice and clean dishes. Air conditioning, a fancy stereo, comfortable furniture and Internet are not nearly as important to me as an unlimited supply of fresh water. We have met remarkable cruisers that survive on only an eye dropper of water a day. To each is own. Uses of […]
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Do chocolate cereals shock you and seem improper? A generation of children who grew up eating Count Chocula are now adults and they have spawned new sensibilities, evidenced by Boucan, a restaurant based on chocolate. I, Gail, love chocolate so was eager to try the innovate menu but Jason was cautious and suspicious. The setting, above the town of Soufrieres in St. Lucia, should be enough to lure you there. To give you a flavor of Boucan, here is the intro page of the menu:(click here to see the full […]
Day in a Life: Passage to Martinique
Most passages on Two Fish start when bakers and armies are at their busiest. Before the sun had risen, the crew of Two Fish was removing a sail cover, unfrapping the main halyard and turning on the chart. We were tied to a mooring ball owned by the legendary hiking guide Sea Cat, aka Octavius. Even though we were only staying one night, I had donned my scuba gear and rigged a back-up line in case the mooring rode failed. The back-up line was actually two docks lines connected by […]
Beautiful Dominica
You don’t need to be in Dominica for too long before you learn that it has 365 rivers, 10 varieties of bananas, that the number of rings on a coconut tree indicate its age (age=#rings/2) and that a kingfisher is actually a bird, not an Indian beer. At least those are the facts that I remember. Martin (aka Providence) filled my head with many more facts as he rowed us up the Indian River. Fortunately, he canceled the test on the return trip. Our refreshment was a coconut procured from […]
Photo essay of Guadeloupe
We spent most of our time underwater or on top of a mountain so this post is just photos.
Mini-post: Sounds at Anchor
Sailors always have an ear open for sounds, listening for a warning that there is a problem with the boat. Has part of the bridle failed, is another anchored boat touching our hull, is a water pump running, is a sail not stowed properly? The benefit of this audio monitoring system, aka worrying, is that I am more attuned to sounds than I was in Manhattan. In NYC, you gain the skill of blocking out sirens, church bells, garbage trucks and Saturday night drunks. Here are some sounds I have […]
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