S/V SweetEscape

Important Message from Your Cruising Editor (That's Me!):

Given the state of the SailBlogs site, I have decided to discontinue hosting my blog with them and have put together a new website that features my blog, my photography,...

Jan 18, 2023

Playing the Waiting Game

We arrived at Marathon, Boot Key to be exact, on Monday.

It's been just over a month since we applied for our Coast Guard boat documentation. Since we chose to...

Some of you have posed questions that I will answer here. There may be things that you've wondered about but didn't ask, so I'll do the best I can to inform you. After all, we're not all sailors, right?

Emily asks, "What does "S/V" stand for? Or...

From us, to you... we wish you much joy and prosperity in 2023.



As I read the last posts of the year from my...

It was a lovely send off... on the New River, side-tied to the wall, our friends, both old and new, came to celebrate with us as we renamed our Leopard 40 Catamaran.

Boat Renaming Ceremony:

It took us a few weeks but finally, we are no longer ‘Nauti-Nauti.’ Now we are officially S/V Sweet Escape! We have completed the official boat naming process to make us legal with the Coast...