Altair's Cruz Nuz

cruising, vb, kroozing, working on your boat in exotic locations around the Caribbean....Dudley and Becca

25 October 2012 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club
25 September 2012 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club
28 July 2011 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club!
27 July 2011 | Key Biscayne, Florida
27 July 2011 | Stiltsville and Miami just across the Bay.
27 July 2011 | Gulf Stream...
27 July 2011 | Gulf Stream, Here we come!
26 July 2011 | Sweet and Very Special Bahamas...Goodbye...for now!
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor
26 July 2011 | Gun Cay's floral gifts!
26 July 2011 | The surf at Honeymoon Harbor!
26 July 2011 | Our last island wonderland...before the Concrete Jungle....
26 July 2011 | Gun Cay...Practicing walking on land...
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor...very cool!
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor...We like it!
25 July 2011 | A very Busy Honeymoon Harbor!
25 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor, Lee side of Gun Cay
25 July 2011 | Bimini, Our Beloved Bahamas!
24 July 2011 | Bimini, Big Game Club Marina!

Ooooh the Friends...

05 May 2011 | Marigot Bay, St. Martin
Becca
We got a call from Diane (of Jabulani, our friend of CGSC, and Grenada) on the VHF. She met a new man and is staging from here to cross the pond to to the North Sea with Gerd. Unique Dream is the boat he built and being a German, means that all the systems onboard that boat are probably exemplary!

They stopped by just as Vicky and Mike did to ask about customs! The four of them agreed to come aboard and we managed to pull off a sundowner without ice! Red wine, my infamous salsa, some pineapple and we chatted til the phenomenal sunset. How cool this cruising community!!!

We only chatted, after we heard them on the radio, with Susie on S/V Spirited Lady! Michelle and Dave on Daniel Story are here, going south too...Vicky and Bob on Fox-Sea, Rosemary on Balder (heading to the North Sea with 16 other Swedish boats) and Antonia and Joe on Woeee, also heading south! We bumped into Marilyn and Kent on Cardea, who were totally willing to pick us up in their rental car take us to Phillipsburg where the ferry to Saba is and pick us up at the end of the day. We have such a wonderful connection with those two! Yes, they are heading back to Grenada with the 'parade' of boats....Wheeennnn, wish we had time to hang with them all!

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Vessel Name: Altair
Vessel Make/Model: Tartan 34'
Hailing Port: Coconut Grove Sailing Club
Crew: Dudley Clark and Becky Butler
About: Dudley has owned this Tartan sloop and has been cruising on her since 1986. Becky joined the good sloop back in 2000 when we first started cruising together and he has been 'training' me ever since! I couldn't be happier! I've been sailing all my life, but cruising is a whole different fish!
Extra: This is the most extended cruise we've braved on this wonderful, old boat of ours which is planned to be about 2 years! We left Miami in late February of 2008 and want to get below the hurricane belt by the end of July! Ok, so it's July, 2011...we're close, but not home yet!

S/V ALTAIR

Who: Dudley Clark and Becky Butler
Port: Coconut Grove Sailing Club