Next weekend we fly to Porto to move Shearwater down the coast to Gibraltar. It’s roughly 500nm to the rock and a nice chance to try all of the changes we’ve made to Shearwater since arriving in Porto last summer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we are already watching the weather given my
The Travel lift saddle that is. Yesterday was launch day again and hopefully we’ll be in the water for a long time this time. Chris arrived in Philadelphia on Monday, collected all of our goodies from her Mom’s in New Jersey and moved onto the boat Tuesday morning. It’s only been 2.5 days, but the
Times, they are a changing, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident then onboard a sailboat far, far from land. Access to “data” has changed so much in the last 15 years, that basically nothing I knew when we cruised on Earendil is relevant today. So, I’ve had to get up to speed on all
Knowing where we are at all times on a boat is a big deal. It is very helpful for avoiding running into things and for crossing oceans and actually arriving at the intended destination. We’ll be carrying paper charts of all the areas we sail, and relying almost solely on GPS to know where we
