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.
Getting Ready to be Hauled Out
“You know Moby, the winds in Prickly Bay are always howling. We could go ahead and try to get the sails down now.”
“That’s not a bad idea,” Moby responded. “It’d be pretty calm in Grande Anse.”
“Last year, if you remember, we practically sailed away at anchor when we were raising the sails so that we could drop them on deck and fold them up.”
Not an easy feat since our jib is 150%, which is huge. So to drop the sail and then fold it on the two foot wide side deck, while underway with our mainsail still up, was great to have behind us before we’d even dropped anchor.
Lots of work involved to get ready for being hauled. Moby spent yesterday removing halyards and putting away jib sheets and other lines, cleaning out the water tanks and doing other jobs too numerous to mention while I wiped down every inch of our interior teak and scrubbed the cabin ceiling with a vinegar/water solution to remove any mildew.
“Maybe I should be GoPro videotaping this,” Moby laughed as he watched me plop down on a ziplock bag filled with clothes to vacuum seal the pack.
“This is the Barbara Hufsmith method of packing.” I responded, “It is meant to be very efficient in saving space.”
Today we need to take down and thoroughly scrub the bimini and dodger and polish all the stainless framework. The To Do list is endless, but we are getting hauled out at 8 AM tomorrow, Wed, so we have to keep plugging.
As long as I still have time for my swim to the beach and back. That’s what I’ll miss most when we return to Rochester. The warm Caribbean waters.
