Position: 17°37’58.3″N 63°14’16.3″W Clouds hang on Saba. Viewed from St. Martin, Saba (pronounced Say-bah) is a giant fist of a volcano thrust out of the sea. The volcano is quiet these days, but as you approach from the north you …
Position: 18°30’02″N 64°21’57″W Last year we celebrated New Year’s Eve in Charleston, South Carolina. Avid readers of this blog will recall the ‘bomb cyclone’, aka freak snowstorm, that brought the city to a standstill. Our big celebration was to crawl …
I started and did not finish a Coursera course on Creative Writing. Here is one of the exercises and my submission. Peer feedback was only available to paying customers, not for us auditors. If the story sounds derivative and familiar, …
Position: 18°25’05″N 64°36’35″W Having ordered our new windlass motor, we were stuck in the Virgin Islands until it arrived. Having successfully raised the anchor by hand with all my vertebrae intact, we left the US Virgins and headed over to …
Position: 18°25’48.8″N 64°26’40.7″W We take a visit to The Baths on Virgin Gorda. You can pick up a free mooring and swim or paddle into the beach there. The Baths are a natural wonder. Huge boulders form caves and pools …
Position: 18°21’05.2″N 64°46’40.1″W The Backstreet Buccaneers take a hike on St. John. Along the way we stopped at a couple of ruined buildings of indeterminate age. 150 years ago the hills you see in the video were terraced and covered …
My chat with my friend Thomas was cut short today because I had to shoo away a large, bareboat catamaran that decided to anchor much too close to Aleta. One of the things I most appreciate about Thomas is his …
Position: 18°18’51.1″N 64°52’05.4″W A short tour about St. Thomas & Water Island as we head back out to St. John. We spent a good bit of time at Honeymoon Beach on Water Island and are happy to be on our …
Position: 18°20’40″N 64°55’09″W In the wee hours of the morning of our tenth day at sea the twinkling lights of St. Thomas appeared on the horizon. Then our cellphones sprang into life and we slowly reconnected with the outside world. …
