Christening Ceremony
Sailors are a superstitious lot. We are especially superstitious about naming a boat and require a ceremony to properly christen the boat or rename it, if it’s a used boat. The stakes are high: if you do not properly name/re-name your boat, you are doomed to a lifetime of bad luck! Maybe this was the […]
Captain’s Training
Over the next few weeks, Capt Darren put us through the paces, but in a good way. From quizzes on the U.S. Coast Guard's "Rules of the Road" to technical issues aboard trimarans to sail handling and navigation, and much more
Maiden Sail
After getting a walk-through by Nico from Performance Yacht Sales, we set off to move the boat from Annapolis to it’s new home in Virginia Beach. After a little delay in the morning, we set off out of the Back Creek, into the bay, and made our way 125 nautical miles (nm) south through the […]
I bought a boat!
After a ton of research, lots of sailing classes, and working my way up from a 16.5′ Capri, to a Catalina 22, then a Catalina 250, a Catalina 27, and then a Newport 30, we made the jump from a monohull to a multihull… and not just any multihull, we got a 2022 NEEL 43 […]
