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.

Mr. Fixit

05 February 2019 | Simpson Bay Lagoon, Sint Maarten
Caroline
“Info,” Moby announced as he was washing up last night’s dishes while I did my morning calisthenics.
That is one of the topic headings in the Cruisers Net we tune into every morning at 7:30. Right after ”Safety and Security” and before “ Buy, Swap or Sell”.
“Yes Moby, what Info do you have?“ I respond between pushups.
“We are out of hot water” was the reply.
Living in a house, you wouldn’t think about hot water… But on a boat, in order to create hot water for showers, we need to run the engine for 45 minutes.
I must admit, I am a little spoiled living on a boat with Moby. Being an engineer, he takes care of all the boat’s maintenance and actually enjoys figuring out how to solve issues.
Slapping conduits inside our mast? I look up and he is drilling a hole through the mast and sticking in a wire hook to secure pvc pipes (which house the wiring) from the incessant slapping noise every time the boat rocks.
He then noticed that our solar panels weren’t putting out as much power as they should, based on information on our instrument panel. So he gets busy checking the connections on our solar panels. That supplies all the power we need to run our refrigeration, our little freezer and our inverter to charge phones, computers or whatever.
Pretty key stuff. Unfortunately the internal halyards are still slapping and there is nothing we can do about that.

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