Sailors Logbook

As planned I visited Joe and Faye aboard Mystic Charge in St. Thomas, USVI.I don’t think that I’ll be invited again. The day I arrived brought the worse weather they had during their stay in the Islands. I landed amidst thunderstorm and winds gusting to 40 knots. Not much has changed during the next 5 [...]

…and for some that means a lot of good sailing, for myself it means skiing. During the winter months I move to Park City, Utah and teach skiing at the Deer Valley Resort. I’m getting ready to head out west on the 1st of December. It’s possible that I will not spend entire winter in [...]

I visited the Annapolis Boat Show this year – it was a good one. Just about anything your heart desires was there – from a 70′ Hinckley Sou’wester to a 13′ Melonseed Skiff. Contrary to the weather report the weather cooperated perfectly ,  we had a warm and a sunny day. There wasn’t that much [...]

  All is well – I’m back home, calluses on my hands are healing nicely and I’m ready for another voyage. I think that’s going to be with Joe in the BVI aboard s/v Mystic Charge. I’ll have a more detailed account of the voyage on Pride of Baltimore II here. Here is the guest [...]

I found out today that I need to be in NY on Saturday to join Pride of Baltimore ( http://www.marylandspride.org/index.php ) for a sail from New York to Baltimore. I’m pretty excited – as I didn’t think that it will happen – someone got sick and a spot opened up. I’m going to drive up to [...]

Here what we look for in a boat and some suggestion from www.mahina.com Mast less than 63ft Draft 5ft IMS Stability index over 120 deg Stability Ratio over 2 CSV under 2   Morgan 382, 383 * USA Excellent Ted Brewer design for around $60K. Gozzard 31, 36, 44 CAN Good design & construction. Totally [...]

I’m planning on using this blog to keep track of our progress on the way to Cruising Life. I’ll post my thoughts (scary) and ideas as well as useful links and articles I come across. Let see how well this is going to work. Mark