I'll admit it, we had a dark couple of days surrounding the time of my last post. It's been a very long time since we haven't known at least the general direction that we should be heading, so having no plan or course was painful. Much can change in a couple of days though. Since my last post, there has…
From time to time we are made aware of crew positions that have become available on charter boats. Just yesterday, for example, our friend who runs a charter yacht management company asked me if we knew of any captain/chef teams who'd like to work on a nice 50' catamaran in the Virgin Islands. While I couldn't think of anyone off the top…
Yesterday's post about charter jobs, as expected, created quite a bit of interest. And rightly so, it's a legit opportunity for the right people. To be fair to our friends though, I should have listed a few qualifications in that post. People who have read our blog for some time know the steps that I had to go through to…
There have been a couple of articles published recently about what it costs to go cruising. Here is one such piece written by well-respected cruiser and author, Jimmy Cornell. While he includes some numbers in the article, we have always maintained that quoting a specific amount is impractical and I basically posted as much here. Although, before we left, I…
As of today, we have been cruising for 894 days, just shy of two and a half years. In all that time Rebecca and I have never left the boat alone for more than a 24 hour period. Yes, Rebecca did have a couple of trips back to North America but I stayed on the boat while she was gone.…
Rebecca was hard at work yesterday, attempting to resuscitate rubber dummies and patch up skeletons. Having completed a first aide course just before we set off sailing, and several other times in the past, this portion of the STCW course was relatively easy for her. That said, a refresher is always good, especially on important material such as this. Rebecca…