The Bahamas

Post No. Four, Day 136 LVG- I like taking photos, and I absolutely love looking at photos of past adventures, but I do not actually love the laborious task of going through and editing all the photos I take.  Maybe I should say it this way- its not that I don’t like the actual task of editing the photos, but …

Miami

Post No. Three, Day 135 LVG- I have to say I love the idea of documenting our adventures and sharing a good story, but it has only taken me a decade or so to realize that I am not very good at doing it in any semblance of a punctual time frame.  I just don’t think my constitution is congruent …

Sailing Down the East Coast

Post No. Two, Day 41 LVG – A lot has happened in the past 21 days.  We’ve sailed south, around Cape Hatteras (the 800 lb pink gorilla in the corner of any East Coast sailor’s mind), around Cape Lookout, around Cape Fear, and are now sitting at anchor in the Matanzas River off St. Augustine, Florida.  More importantly, we have …

The Adventures of the Saint Robert Begin

Post No. One, Day 20 LVG – We set sail almost three weeks ago.  And left our home in Colorado and most of our worldly belongings three weeks before that.  We crossed the country, with our truck loaded to the gills, and then unceremoniously shoved and mashed this mountain of junk necessities into the boat.  It has literally taken us …

Botulism

Day 120 – 10.27.2018 When a sailor makes plans, they are written in the sand, at low tide… Up until a week ago, our plans, as they were, saw us casting off the dock lines the first week of November, and sailing our boat south to the cheery Virgin Islands, sitting under swaying palms and drinking pain killers as we …

50 Days Aboard

Day 50 – 8.18.2018 Another two weeks has flown by (that might be an accurate preface for our entire adventure, we will see).  In any case, we ticked off a few more items on the boat project list, notably: new gimbaled stove installed, new washer/dryer installed, and new bank of house batteries (three bricks of almost solid lead weighing in …

De-masted

Day 37 – 8.5.2018 Our first week in Annapolis is sailing by rather quickly- boat projects, playgrounds, the library, grocery shopping and laundry fill our days.  The mast was successfully pulled on Monday, after which we motored from Jabin’s Boat Yard on Back Creek up to Spa Creek and the heart of Annapolis.  We putted right under the bridge with …

First Voyage

Ahoy!  And welcome to the Adventures of the Saint Robert.  As you know, Kacey and I love a good adventure, and what could be more adventurous than moving aboard a 50 foot sailboat with three little boys!  This has been our dream for longer than I can remember, and we are thrilled to finally set sail.  Our plans are open …