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
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.
Sapphire's Haulout
“I have a fun job for us,” he said enthusiastically. “You’ll need your sailing gloves on for this one.”
The next thing I knew we were laying out 200’ of heavy duty chain, on the side deck. Then another 125’ of nylon rope, plus the Secondary 15’ chain with 200’ nylon rope so we could thoroughly hose off all the corroding salt.
Scrubbing off the bimini and dodger, hauling sheets and towels across the boatyard, and up the hill for the ½ mile walk over to our Cool Runnings Apt. Not far, but after my third or fourth roundtrip of lugging stuff, it felt like a lot. I was still folding laundry and fixing supper by 8:30 PM. Totally whooped.
Meanwhile, Moby snuck out of the apt at 6:15 AM to head back over to get started on today’s jobs.
Today we get to sand and paint Sapphire’s bottom.
