Author: Karen Crowe

I hit a (relatively) low point in our sailing journey not long ago, and it made me thoughtful about what we share here on this blog, and how we share it. As a glass-half-full kind of gal, I can definitely err on the side of just presenting the fun and exciting aspects of our sailing…

Recently the pace of our sailing life has slowed down. We’ve definitely turned a corner from discovering new places to digging deeper into our favorite spots, which means fewer long passages and longer stay overs. We returned home from St. Martin in late January for several big events. The first was a diving trip to…

First, Time with Friends October 31 means Halloween at home, but for Andy and Karen in 2022 it meant two things: The END of hurricane season and the BEGINNING of a looooonnnnng day of travel! We awoke at 3:45 a.m. to catch a 4:30 a.m. Uber to the airport for a 7 a.m. flight to…

(A joint post by Andy and Karen) (Karen) Greetings from Gratitude! We hope all of our sailing friends had an uneventful hurricane season, and that all of our land friends have enjoyed their summer and fall.  Gratitude spent hurricane season in a new location: Bonaire, part of the ABCs (along with Aruba and Curacao) in…

Ok, it’s been a hot minute since we posted about our sailing adventures, and we’ve covered a lot of ocean since our last post! Time to catch up. We last left you in Sint Maarten, where we hung out for much of the spring. During this time, we hosted some more friends, did some work…

If you’ve been reading our blog since the early days, you’ll remember our chronicle of traversing the Thorny Path to Windward – where sailors fight the headwinds and seas to get from the Bahamas to the top of Eastern Caribbean, around Anguilla or St. Martin. The traditional path is Bahamas-Turks and Caicos-Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico-US Virgin…

When we last posted, we had finished up a glorious experience of the Exumas and were headed down to George Town, in the southern Exumas. George Town is a cruisers’ Mecca, with a large beautiful harbor, easy anchoring, the perfect beach bar, and large grocery and auto parts stores for provisioning and repairs. There’s a…

When we were last in the Bahamas, in 2019, we sailed east to the Exumas from Nassau. This year we traveled west from Eleuthera, which allowed us to sail deep water in the Exuma Sound instead of nervously eyeballing our way through the coral heads of the Yellow Bank. Highbourne Cay was a day away…

You sink very quickly, hand tools, such as yesterday’s 13mm socket,But not as fast as the iPhone 8 out of my backpack pocket! You fooled me once, replacement davit winch screw;But the front cockpit cushions got me TWICE! Lost not one but TWO! Goodbye, new blue sun hat.Good riddance, 25 pounds of body fat! It…

When we last left you, we had just reinstalled our mainsail and were looking forward to using it to head south, towards Eleuthera. I am happy to report that the main is working great! So far, at least. We rose early to leave Little Harbor early on Friday morning, January 21. Alas, about 45 minutes…