Sapphire Sailing Adventures

Vessel Name: Sapphire
Vessel Make/Model: Bristol 41
Hailing Port: Rochester, NY
Crew: Moby & Caroline Burton
17 April 2019 | Laying out 200' of chain on deck
16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada
16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada
13 April 2019 | Tyrell Bay, Carriacou
12 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, teaching William about reading music
11 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia
10 April 2019 | Pink Sunset off Bequia
10 April 2019 | Papa's Restaurant overlooking Admiralty Bay, Bequia
09 April 2019 | Winfield applying coat #6 of Epiphane Varnish to Sapphire's coaming
08 April 2019 | Tennis Court behind the Gingerbread House, Bequia
04 April 2019 | Floating Beach Bar
04 April 2019 | Bequia
03 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia
03 April 2019 | Center Hatch on Sapphire
02 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia, The Grenadines
02 April 2019 | Sailing past St Lucia across from the Pitons
28 March 2019 | Anse de Salines, Martinique
28 March 2019
28 March 2019 | Sapphire's Cockpit
24 March 2019
Recent Blog Posts
17 April 2019 | Laying out 200' of chain on deck

Haul Out Day

"I always feel like The Ghost from Christmas Past when we do this exercise of hauling the heavy chain out on our side deck to rinse it and let it dry." On our primary alone, we have 200' of chain and 120' of rope. Then our secondary anchor has 200' of rope and 30' of chain.

16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada

Getting Ready to be Hauled Out

We enjoyed a lovely leisurely couple of days sailing down to Grenada from Bequia, arriving on Palm Sunday.

16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada

Grenada's Cruiser's Net

The cruiser’s net in Grenada is always very lively. On Safety and Security this morning we heard that a sailboat coming up from Trinidad had a boatful of eight ‘Venezuelan looking’ men trying to overtake them. The sailboat was able to get away,. but the hull is riddled with bullet holes. They [...]

13 April 2019 | Tyrell Bay, Carriacou

New Way to Clear into Customs

How do you clear in to Customs, when you arrive at a port and don’t feel like blowing up your dinghy?

12 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, teaching William about reading music

Teaching William some Notes

I realized that if I set up my piano early in the morning, then I can play before there is too much sun in the cockpit.

11 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia

Paddling around Bequia

As my buddy Joan Dwyer would say, “the goal in paddle boarding is to avoid looking like a little old lady pushing a Wegman’s cart.” Actually, I’ll be doing that soon enough as we are heading home in a week.

A Classic Way to See the World

23 February 2017 | Melange Grill, Port de Plaissance, Sint Maarten, (clockwise Paul, Capt John, Jack Huttner, Bob, Jay, Caroline & Moby)
Caroline
Our buddy, Jack Huttner, has figured out a classic way to see the world and get tons of off-shore sailing experience at the same time. He basically signs up to help deliver sailboats…anywhere and everywhere.
He is not your usual crew. Jack actually looks for things to fix, constantly trims the sails, double checks the course, the currents, Wind Guru, and is more than happy to cook, even when underway.
Moby, (who as many of you know, is an adult sailing instructor) actually put Jack through a certification course just three years ago. Jack then bought a C&C 30, supposedly for cruising, but got hooked on racing. Within just the last three years, Jack has helped with a half dozen or more deliveries, simply for the experience of racking up time at the helm. He joined us to take Sapphire through the canal system back in October and then showed up again in November whereupon he, Moby and a 3rd friend, Oz, made a personal record-time delivery of Sapphire down to the Caribbean.
We were in Sint Maarten anchored in the Lagoon, when Moby got the call, “Hey Moby, I’m helping a guy deliver his 46’ Beneteau and we’ll be in St Maarten on Thursday, Feb 23, but just for a day. Do you have time to meet up?”
There were five of them who climbed aboard Sapphire for cocktail hour, armed with a couple of bottles of wine. Turns out it wasn’t actually a delivery as much as the Captain, John Pedersen, just wanted some company for sailing around the Caribbean. All five of the men were very experienced sailors: Jay and Paul were retired surgeons, Bob just retired from a family business, Jack is semi-retired and does consulting work, when he's not checking out places he’d like to take his fiancé sailing, and I think Captain John mentioned he was also a doctor.
They were generous enough to treat us to dinner, for no good reason, as we didn’t do a thing for them. They are pulling anchor shortly to continue their whirlwind Caribbean tour. Next stop for Jack will be a Mediterranean crossing. Nice gig, eh?
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