I was talking to a friend who’s relatively new to sailing about how much racing improved my sailing skills, and I mentioned that I wouldn’t have had the confidence to cruise to The Bahamas had I not raced. The lessons I’ve learned about sailing an efficient course and always looking for that little bit more […]
We were excited to finally leave Deltaville after five weeks. After what felt like an eternity, we closed on Windara and began the whirlwind process of moving aboard. Saturday afternoon, we cast off the lines to continue our journey home. Our shakedown to Annapolis turned up a few issues that the survey hadn’t but also […]
With this being our final weekend on Silent Sky, we wanted to squeeze every second out of it, and I’d call it a success. With a single reef in the sails in 15-20kts of breeze, I fell off onto a broad reach headed across the Bay. It had been breezy for a while, and as […]
Chesapeake Bay sailing is AMAZING, and I’m officially jealous of any of you for whom this is home base. We had a slow morning on anchor in Jackson Creek, and as a very faint breeze filled in, we got under way. It was just enough to get us moving under sail but with only a […]
Since we’re here for a bit, we’re taking advantage of the opportunity to cruise the Chesapeake. One of the things I love about cruising Long Island Sound is that you can just go out and sail without a specific plan and choose a destination based on wind – and that’s true here too… there are […]
It didn’t make sense to sail Silent Sky to New York and then have to turn right back around and pick up Windara. But I’d been looking forward to spending the summer at home, and with the delays in the process, I felt like we were missing so much. We decided to rent a car […]
While we’ve been in Deltaville, you’ll notice we haven’t been posting, but we’re finally ready to share some big news. We’ve made the INCREDIBLY difficult decision to sell our beloved Silent Sky and move up to a bigger boat. We absolutely LOVE this lifestyle, and we both agreed pretty early on in the trip that […]
After exiting the Dismal Swamp, we passed through Norfolk, bringing our first round trip transit of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to a close (mile marker 0 is just off Hospital Point and the Nauticus museum). It was a pretty emotional experience, completing another chapter on this amazing journey. We couldn’t help but reflect on how […]
On our way down the ICW in the fall we had hoped to run the Dismal Swamp route, but timing didn’t work out so we ended up taking the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. We were excited to take a different route home and experience the Dismal Swamp for ourselves. We were up early to be […]
Our little anchorage was so well protected that we decided to stay. Monday started out sunny and beautiful, and we enjoyed our morning coffee to a chorus of birds chirping all around us. Later in the day, the clouds filled in, bringing rain and chilly temperatures that stuck around most of the week. Tuesday rained […]