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.

Magnet

22 March 2018 | Nonsuch Bay Resort, Antigua
Caroline
It was probably an ill-conceived idea to start out our hike over to Shirley Heights at 6 PM…considering sunset happens precisely at 6:30 PM, and it would be a good 3- 4 mile hike over to the other bay. We had heard that every Thursday night there was a steel band, followed by a barbeque and outdoor band that was a real draw for the cruisers. My older son, Nick, had just arrived in the afternoon and after a late lunch, swim, and paddle board, we got a late start heading into shore.
Nick, refreshed from his catchup nap, wanted to give it a try anyway…So off we go on our hike, sticking to the main roads. Sure enough. It got dark again. Just like clockwork. But at least we were on paved roads and not bushwacking our way through trails. After about 2 hours, climbing mostly uphill, we thought we had only a short distance further to our destination. ( Not sure how we’d know, since none of us had ever been there. )
A large bus-like van, heading down from the top of the steep incline, actually stopped to ask where we were going.
“Heading over to Shirley Heights,” we replied.
“They are closed,” the driver responded.
“Oh, no. We have been walking for over two hours. Any chance you could give us a lift back down to Falmouth Harbour?”
“Sure. We can make room. Hop in.”
By this time, Moby, who had been a really good sport all evening, mouths to me “You are soo lucky! There might have been a double murder if we’d gotten all the way over there in the pitch dark only to find the place all closed up.
As we climb aboard, I headed on to the back and Moby follows, but Nick noticed there was one available seat up front that happened to be right next to a very pretty young woman.
Turns out, we were on a bus full of Italian tourists. We spoke a bit with the people in the back, but Nick and Catia spent the entire trip back to town, engaged in a deep conversation in Italian.
How random is that? …to be basically hiking to nowhere on a dark mountain road, only to meet a busload of Italian beauties. Nick, having lived in Italy for a few years, is pretty fluent in the language. He also happens to be single and very eligible, which I am sure did not escape their notice.
Fun way to kick off his weekend with us.

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