Tag Archives: Sailing

And Where is Harmonie Today?

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Bill Kinney

After a month at the dock In Glen Cove, New York working with another Amel owner to install a new C-drive in his boat, and do some other assorted repairs and upgrades, our time is our own for a while. … Continue reading →

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Sailing from Bermuda to Martinique: An Easy Passage.

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Bill Kinney

Last night we dropped anchor off Sainte Anne in Martinique after a long, but relatively uneventful trip. No gales, no pounding close hauled sailing. In 7 1/2 days we covered 1158 nautical miles at an average speed of 6.5 knots. … Continue reading →

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Why Bermuda?

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Bill Kinney

So why exactly did we end up in Bermuda? It is certainly a nice place, but wasn’t on our sailing plan. The sum of the story is that the weather forecasts were off just far enough to force us to … Continue reading →

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Making Easting

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Bill Kinney

The route we are on is frequently called “Route-65” because you head east from the cost of the US and then when you get to 65W longitude, you turn south. On average, that puts you on a comfortable track. There … Continue reading →

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Miles under the keel…

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Bill Kinney

It hasn’t been fast sailing, but mostly quite steady. In 32 hours we have covered 212 miles. Only about 1350 miles and 12 days to go! The weather was pretty much as predicted, except for before dawn this morning when … Continue reading →

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Sailing from Brunswick to Martinique: Our Next Adventure Begins

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Bill Kinney

We are in the final few minutes of policing the boat to make sure she is ready for our next adventure, and will be dropping lines within a few hours. We will be leaving from Brunswick, GA and making one … Continue reading →

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A Short Detour…

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Bill Kinney

Continuing on our delivery voyage, we cut in off our planned route to anchor in Boqueron Bay on the west side of Puerto Rico to handle a minor repair that wasn’t easily done under way. That’s been handled, we grabbed … Continue reading →

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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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