Turtle Mail

Having crossed the wide open Atlantic, our landfall was at Martinique, a French territory island in the middle of the Caribbean chain of isl...

I always remembered a conversation I had many years ago with an old salt who had sailed the 7 seas and he told me that the east to west pass...

T'was the season to cross the North Atlantic from east to west. It was mid-December and a good many, such as the Atlantic Rally for Crui...

As we approached the first islands of Cape Verde, the early morning sun was making its presence, showing us, in profile, just how mountai...

Preceding the departure of a passage, there is always a certain measure of healthy trepidation that swells up in a sailor's blood regard...

The harbour at Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria to the west would take us about 11 hours to sail there from our anchorage at Fuertev...

Leaving behind Puerto del Rosario (Canary Islands), we headed further south down the eastern coast of the island called Fuerteventura to ano...

When we awoke in the morning anchored at Puerto del Rosario (N28°29.588' W013°51.572' Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), Jordan said he...

Just before leaving Lanzarote of the Canary Islands, we received a photo from Don, crewing on Danica , who we visited at Marina Rubicon (see...

We had learned that another yachtie on board Oh! , from our home port and another Bluewater Cruising Association member, was in another mari...