Day 1, 2/23/2014: SE winds 10-15 and SE swell at 3'-4' with 1' chop impeded our progress along our SE course. It was a beautiful day for sailing but the headwinds and head-seas made us tack back & forth a few times; we made only 75 mi. good in 24 hrs. Day 2, 2/24: Same…
Interrupting my Bahamas travelogue with a status report: Got a good weather forecast to leave where we are now (Sat., 2/22/2014): GeorgeTown, Great Exuma, Bahamas. Today's the 1st sailboat race in the 34th annual GeorgeTown regatta, and there's plenty of action as the windward mark is about 300' away from The Fox. Big fun. We…
Interrupting my Bahamas travelogue with a status report: Got a good weather forecast to leave where we are now (Sat., 2/22/2014): GeorgeTown, Great Exuma, Bahamas. Today's the 1st sailboat race in the 34th annual GeorgeTown regatta, and there's plenty of action as the windward mark is about 300' away from The Fox. Big fun. We…
Gallant Fox is celebrating the Solstice Season afloat on a mooring in St. Augustine, Florida. We're set to head further south along the dread Intracoastal Waterway tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, we're enjoying the town's onshore Christmas light display, and the surprise arrival of 2 reproduction pirate-style galleons – one has functioning sails, even. The waterfront is…
When last I made a legitimate post back in April 2012, I was already way behind in my storytelling. We'd completed our refit in Stuart, Florida, in July 2011 and sailed further north to Brunswick, Georgia. Left Brunswick in November 2011 and sailed to the Bahamas. Spent 3 months there, then sailed back to Florida…
Continuing our April 2011 tour of the Yucatan, we left Mérida in the NW corner of the peninsula and turned south and west toward Celestun, a beach town on the Yucatan's Gulf Coast. I wanted to gather seashells and see some flamingos that were reputed to hang out in a salt marsh south of the…
I'm back. No; nothing bad happened, just couldn't find the right combo platter of means, motive and opportunity to post. But now, here I am. Lucky you. m
How many years is it now?
May 7, 2007. Goodbye, Rita.