Tag Archives: Sailing

And Now for Something Completely Different..

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Bill Kinney

While crossing the Caribbean Sea yesterday evening, up on our system pops an unusual alert: Tsunami Advisory. There has been a large undersea earthquake off Honduras, and most of the Greater Antilles are on watch for a possible tsunami. For … Continue reading →

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North in January?

Posted on February 1, 2025 by Bill Kinney

What ARE they thinking? OK, sometimes our decisions seem a little odd… For example we were in warn and comfy Miami, ready to cross to the Bahamas, and instead we end up in Brunswick Georgia? Where they had real snow … Continue reading →

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A Fishing Day

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Bill Kinney

We have been hunkered down in “NoName Anchorage” on the southern end of Key Biscayne, near Miami. Originally to wait for weather to transit to the Bahamas, but then we got stuck a bit longer while we explored a business … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidays Everybody!

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Bill Kinney

Yesterday, we sprang ourselves out of the boatyard and made our way to the anchorage in South Lake in Hollywood, Florida. A world of palm trees, speedboats, and high-rise condos. The only white part of Christmas here is the sand … Continue reading →

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Binocular Deal!

Posted on November 30, 2024 by Bill Kinney

I don’t often make these kinds of time sensitive product recommendations, but here is one too good to passup! It is an Amazon Black Friday Deal, and the version without a compass is almost 50% off retail, and a price … Continue reading →

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Anchor’s Aweigh!

Posted on November 30, 2024 by Bill Kinney

Harmonie is out of the water now getting a long list of projects done. One of our routine projects is to end-for-end the anchor chain so we even out the wear across its length. We missed that project at our … Continue reading →

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What we did on our Summer “Vacation”.

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Bill Kinney

Time to catch up… I’ve been slacking on blog posts as I have worked on other things. We spent a lot of extra time in Brunswick GA. Bill did a couple of deliveries, including one from Ponta Delgato, Azores to … Continue reading →

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So You Want to be a Delivery Captain?

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Bill Kinney

We have had a couple of deliveries lined up over the past month or so that have kept us busy, and some what off line. If you think that job might be all fun… The romance of the open ocean! … Continue reading →

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Catching Up…

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Bill Kinney

We have been in Le Marin, Martinique since our last update–at least mostly! When we first arrived, the dock was full of boats that were full of people we knew. Lots of socializing and many sea stories were traded. The … Continue reading →

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The LEAST Efficient form of Travel…

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Bill Kinney

And no, it is NOT sailing!!! We just completed a delivery sail bringing a Hylas 54 sailboat from Charleston, SC down to Cape Eleuthera Marina in the Bahamas, which is where we started the trip, and where we left Harmonie … Continue reading →

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