Is the title “click-bait?” Well perhaps, but I’ll let you be the judge at the end of the post…. Our original plan was to head over to St. Thomas, perhaps make a quick stop in Blue Chair Bay on St. John as an ode to Kenny Chesney, and then head over to St. Croix, the…
We arrived at the Marina Del Rey in Fajardo, PR on January 25, 2022 and spent a few days getting crew on their way back to their homes, resting, and converting the boat from “delivery” to “cruising” mode. Soon enough we were ready to explore Puerto Rico and its surrounding islands. Our port of arrival,…
Michelle and I are are back in Jupiter Florida this summer, while ROAM is sitting out the summer cruise season in Grenada. This summer, we’ve been busy with remodeling projects on our Florida rental properties and dreaming of our return to ROAM. I just realized that the last time I posted to this website was…
Michelle and I are anchored off Punta Arena on the NW side of Vieques tonight. We’ve been working on the boat and/or moving her south since October and what was muscle memory has faded a bit and we found ourselves struggling with routine tasks! It feels good though, to be back on anchor and off…
We’re anchored off the NW side of Vieques tonight. We struggled to get back into our normal routines and get in to full on cruise mode. We’ve been working on the boat and/or moving her south since October! It feels good!!
On Sunday we got more serious about fishing and assigned someone to stay in the cockpit and watch the lines. I re-skirted my favorite Mahi lure and put it out on the rod with only about 100 yards of line left on it after yesterday’s spooling incident. I pulled out a new purple and black…
I’ve been thinking a lot about my Dad on this trip. He loved long offshore passages. He would sit facing aft in the cockpit with f his Morgan 38 and stare into the deep blue ocean for hours, dreaming of past and future adventures at sea. When he was in his 80’s, he made several…
My son, Sean sent me an email last night asking how the trip was going. Here’s, in part how I responded: “Trip couldn’t be better. Boat’s running great. Crew is awesome. Weather is decent. Don’t know how the trip could be better… Fish. We need fish!” We got semi-serious yesterday about catching dinner, but lost…
We had a wonderful ride going yesterday with winds 5-6 kts and slightly behind us for most of the day. By dark, the wind had creeped around to 20 degrees off our starboard bow, but at less than 5 kts we paid no attention to the shift. We had a wonderful meal together just after…
Earlier this evening, it dawned on me that I wasn’t wearing any socks. We entered the Gulf Stream this evening during Robert’s watch yesterday (Tuesday 18) and the water temperature went from 60 to 77 degrees in a minutes. In contrast to Monday night when the seawater temp was 48 finger freezing degrees. NICE!!! I…
