Jazzy Lady's 2019/20 Cruising Adventure

Vessel Name: Jazzy Lady
Vessel Make/Model: Catalina
Hailing Port: Montreal
Crew: Meg, Mark, Annie, Alistair
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23 April 2020

REFLECTIONS

30 March 2020

Night Watch

(March 28th)

25 March 2020

Emergency Migration

Emergency Migration

13 March 2020

The Three Musketeers

Mark has gone away for four week-long stints of work, one each month since December. The first time we had Tracy with us, the second time we had my Mom with us, last month we had Walden to play with every day after school and this month it was just us three musketeers:) So it actually felt like [...]

01 March 2020

Jazzy Lady bursts at the seams

*This post starts while on the last full day of our trip, and ends a few days after our arrival home.

21 February 2020

Still in Spanish Wells

At home one of my favourite summer delights is lying in a hammock listening to the wind rustle through oak or maple leaves. Another audible treat is the smoother, lighter swishing of the wind through the needles of a pine tree. Here in Bahamas I am storing the audio memory of wind through palm trees. [...]

Chesapeake-bound

15 October 2019
megan osler


We left Cape May at 6:30 this morning and dropped anchor at 6:30 this evening on Sassafraz River in Chesapeake Bay. We needed to get a push from the current caused by the flooding tide, which was supposed to give us an extra few knots of speed. It worked out! We sailed up Delaware Bay at top speed 9.4 knots. We loaded the kids up with gravol again because the first couple of hours are out on the open ocean before you turn into a very wide bay. Pretty rocky ride for about 4 hours. But also a great sail with no motor! We were on a steady 25 degree port heel. This time, instead of throwing up, Alistair just dozed in the cockpit for a couple of hours on and off. There was a constant stream of cargo ships passing us by and there are little crab traps strewn all over the bay, in and out of the marked shipping channel so we had to keep a sharp eye out always. The route we’re on is a VERY commonly traveled path by HUNDREDS of other sailing cruisers. It often feels like a parade, especially getting into Cape May yesterday morning and departing today. Bumper-to-bumper sailboats at our anchorage last night. But tonight we are in a more peaceful bay, only 3 other sailboats tucked in here for the night. It seems like half the crews we come across are from Quebec! We haven’t yet experienced the excitement of that first young family for the kids to be shy with for 5 minutes and then best friends with an hour later. The four of us are awaiting that with much anticipation. Annie and Alistair talk about what they miss from home, I do sometimes get worried that 8 months will be too long for them but they have tons of fun high points day.... I think they’ll survive....
We saw our first dolphins yesterday and had our first run-about on a beach. Each and every dinghy ride to Alistair is pure heaven. We chased millions of little crabs into their holes and found a plethora of horseshoe crab carcasses. Some of them were MASSIVE. It appears they get washed up in the dozens with each tide! A&A are keeping illustrated records of every new creature we see. Off to Georgetown, Maryland tomorrow
P.s. the pic is of Hitch, our little ride-along birdie who stayed with us for 20 minutes!
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