S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 5 – 43 NM 7/1 James’ noon-12:30 pm watch 12:18 pm: Glass again, or still. We’re looking at the eventual possibility of running low enough[…]
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Author: Dena
To Bermuda, Day 4
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 4 – 44NM 6/30 Dena’s 3-4 pm watch 3:02 pm: We lost the wind but made two hours of water with the propulsion pack cross-connected.[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 3
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 3 – 62NM 6/29 James’ noon-12:30 pm watch Started with a bang. The Simrad didn’t correctly log the distance we traveled. James got it on[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 2
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 2 – 67NM 6/28 Dena’s half watch, noon-12:30 pm 12:13 pm: Saw a bird! Long wingspan for the size of its body, but I didn’t[…]
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To Bermuda, Day 1
S/V SN-E Cetacea Log Day 1 – 94NM (18 hours) 6/27 James’ 7-8 pm watch 7:47 pm: Anchor came up just fine. I’m a little worried about how the dinghy[…]
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The Invisible Amount of Money
The slow circumnavigation of a 30′ electric sailboat holds a real excitement for people, especially since we can’t find any other sailboats who have done it or are ahead of[…]
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Come on, Marlec
So, of all the new technologies we’ve gotten to know and the new battery chemistry and the new…well…everything propulsion and steering that isn’t our sailing rig, the only one to[…]
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Free and Easy
We are at loose ends for the first time since the beginning of November, when James’ mom died and we started planning how to get him to her celebration of[…]
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Bending West through the Keys
We took off from Key Biscayne bright and early, having checked the weather forecast again that morning and comparing what they said to what we saw. Sure…looks about right. The[…]
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Four days offshore, Beaufort to Fernandina Beach
Beaufort was a terribly tight anchorage, which is what we’d heard and why we’d chosen the dubious charms of Morehead City each and every other time we’ve come through the[…]
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