All the blogs related to making passages on Enjoy
When you do an ocean crossing, there are many attributes you would look for in the perfect crew: knowledge, experience, good judgment, small footprint, multitasking, easy to live with, clean smelling, and good-natured. Lisa and Ken Karsten exhibited all these … Continue reading Goodbye to the best crew ever!
I caught your attention didn’t I? Where to start? Two days into our sail to the Bahamas from Portsmouth, VA our port engine died. Don and Ken (I gave up after a day) have been troubleshooting non stop. Low air … Continue reading Dead engine, fishing weed, what next?
We’ve crossed the ARC starting line and are off to the Bahamas. To track s/v enjoy specifically go to: https://www.worldcruising.com/carib1500/eventfleetviewer.aspx or load the ybtracker app. If you use the ybtracker app, you’ll want to go to the fleet tracker and select a Rally or Race. Choose ARC Bahamas. That information is updated every 4 hours and is talking to a little yellow tracker beacon on the back of our boat. Continue reading We’re off!
So, in follow up to my last post about daily check-ins via SSBs, when in transit, boats must monitor Channel 16 on the maritime mobile band very high frequency (VHF) radio for emergency communications like May Day. Of course, sailors … Continue reading Red is bad, blue is good, green is us!
We were able to check in for the first time on our single sideband radio (SSB), to the 8:15 am SSCA and 8:30 am EST Cruiseheimer’s chat rooms of sorts. This is a time each day where cruisers around the … Continue reading Our first radio chat room!
19:00:00 days left; yesterday we did our first Costco run. Where will it all go? That’s the challenge of boat living! I found a Southwestern recipe to marinate the skirt steak and a lime cilantro marinade for the chicken. Only … Continue reading Started provisioning food today
It’s not too late to join us on the Rhode River for a fun weekend of seminars and new friends! www.ssca.org Continue reading Underway to the SSCA gam
31:00:00 left. Before our last cruise in 2002 at an SSCA nautical flea market, I found a Pactor modem to transmit data over long distances (so you get email in the middle of the ocean) . Removing my hand for … Continue reading 15 years later I redeem myself!
43:00:00 days left and we are a sailboat again! Thanks to Annapolis Rigging, S/V Enjoy has some hard core custom fabricated, anodized plates and spreader tips, tangs and new standing rigging that should keep our mast up and held steady under … Continue reading Custom Band-aids on our 68′ stick
Although we had 16 life vests, the safety concious folks running the ARC Bahamas require auto inflatable life vests with built in crotch straps! Don found a sale that just expired at Spinlock, and they honored it two days late … Continue reading 76 days and we have to have crotch straps?
