VOYAGES

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Passages

We use an "InReach" device to track our movement. It communicates via satellite and can also transmit text messages -- especially useful...

Pompeii of the Caribbean

After an uneventful five-hour passage from Iles Des Saintes, Guadeloupe, we arrived at St. Pierre, our first anchorage in Martinique....

Crew Dawgs - What Motivates Crew

(Ken helped bring CAYUGA from Hampton, VA to the BVIs in November, 2015. This article appeared in the spring issue of the Salty Dawg...

Rhoda's first overnight passage

After some time back home, we returned to the boat in late January where we'd had someone babysitting it on a mooring in St. Thomas,...

A Very Verdant Christmas

It was important for us to have our kids help us celebrate our first Christmas on the boat, so they joined us in the US Virgin Islands....

Pack 'O Dawgs: Fish, Winch, Fuel, & Squall

In unvarnished terms, the essence of a bluewater passage on a small boat sounds like some perverse research project conceived by...

On Becoming A Salty Dawg

Rhoda and I were confident in and comfortable with CAYUGA, so our two-week summer shakedown cruise was much more about learning if we...

Plowing Mud; Could Have Been Worse

After several weeks of work on various projects, I left Whitehall Marina near Annapolis on June 7th to begin our pre-cruising shakedown...

Rising Star Goes Back to Annapolis

We had been looking for the right boat for about a year, and had formed a good relationship with Bernie Jakits and Kate Christensen at...

Encore Adventure