We finally made it to St. Maarten, a month after we planned – sorry about that Ove and Lene! We left Tortula at mid-day. First, Vinni had to recover somewhat from her evening enjoying a couple too many “painkillers” at the Full Moon Party, then we had to bunker fuel (back in Nanny…

  Capri could easily advertise herself this way. Fortunately for us they don’t, because if they did, they would be overrun by guests. Now only a small group of friends come and experience it. We finally managed, after many obstacles, and hindrances by the gods of weather to get 5 fantastic days aboard Capri (the…

  Unfortunately, I didn’t spend a lot of time on Capri. Not because I didn’t want to, oh no, I’d happily sail the entire way around the world, but, but… well such is life. The first thing I experienced was the fantastic hospitality Capris owners showed us. Despite there being very little spare room aboard,…

  We stayed in San Juan for almost a week while the nor’easter continued to blow 30-40 knots. No way we were going out into that, even though it was “only” a 20 hour sail over to Tortula. Every morning we would look at the weather forecast and every day it showed the same –…

We are still in Nassau and waiting for the ”steel guy” to finish the temporary repair of our anchor platform that holds our large 30kg Mantus anchor. We’re spending the time repairing the gouge made by the anchor when the platform collapsed. It is deep – but fortunately not a hole. Located about ½ meter…

  We’re in Copenhagen airport ready to fly back to the US. I happens to be January 4th, which incidentally is Carsten birthday (charming young man of only 66) and the best birthday present he’s gotten is the fast, professional and successful treatment at the University Hospital. He’s fit for fight again and we’re excited…

Dear friends We were back in Denmark for a short visit du to my medical problem and while there, the local TV station, Christianshavns Kvarter once again taped a series of interviews with us (unbelievable that they think we are so interesting).  You’ll find them a bit further down the page Carsten looks a little…

  So dear friends, we actually managed to get a flight back to Charleston, landing at midnight (of course), rented a car and drove out to Capri.  Capri was sitting on land looking a bit forlorn, with snow around her and the temperature was around 20 degrees American (in other words – cold as hell…

One of the very interesting observations we have made is the enormity of different lighthouses we have seen on our travels. I guess I was caught up in the thought that lighthouses were tall round things with a light at the top.   Not so!!   here are some that we have seen along the…

  Once again, Marshall and Debbie had mercy on a couple of poor cruisers and lent us their fantastic beach house at Carolina Beach, right behind the sand dunes. We’ve enjoyed being here for 3 weeks despite concerns about hurricanes that seem to be standing in line out in the Atlantic. Irma sent a tropical…