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5-6 After a very rough beginning the first several hours, things smoothed out and it was a pretty uneventful passage. We left around 5:30pm and got to Samana around 8:30am. We tried to stay about 5 knots so we didn’t get to the channel to early. I took the 12 -3:30 shift. When I went…

5-3 Our day started super early, at 1:30am. We got ready and started to pull up anchor for our first Mona passage crossing west bound. It was of course dark, and nothing can be easy. The bridle and all the chain was covered in mud, so I was going slow to rinse as it came…

4-26 We left around 2 for Gilligan’s island, about a 3 hour ride (ha ha 3 hour tour). There wasn’t much wind so we had to motor. It’s a big mangrove here. We tried to go to shore and eat but it was closed so we played volleyball on the beach. There were tons of…

We left about 3. We were going into the waves which was unusual because we were going west. The waves weren’t super big, so it was rough, but not bad. The kids played games ,did a few games on-line and jumped on the front.It was so rough when we anchored, even after we got the…

4-18Cale and I woke up and debated for 30 min whether we should stay one more day or go to main land Puerto Rico, which is about an 8 hour sail. We eventually decided to go. The kids weren’t super happy at first, but dealt okay. Long passages can get boring. This one was really…

4-15 We moved from USVI to Vieques. We got going about 9am. It was a pretty uneventful passage. Mostly downwind, but started swirling and had to motor last hour or so. Cade caught a fish. He thought it might have been sea weed because it wasn’t really fighting but once we got it in saw…