This Rat Sailed

A brief break from the posts about the Florida trip...I only have one or two left anyway... A wish to all my friends, both sailing and not...

It was the last day of our charter of the Catalina 309 and the weather continues pretty much as it has the last couple days.  Moderately str...

So, when I left off we were at anchor, but not a comfortable anchor.  Even in this "protected" cove, the wind was coming over the ...

When we booked this trip, our original plan was to do some cruising around the bay and the gulf coast and spend several days at anchor.  Unf...

It's nice to have some wind to sail...but this was getting a bit ridiculous. Hurricane Sandy was continuing to give us high winds, in th...

The past few days tropical storm/hurricane Sandy had been approaching the US and we awoke this day to the storm starting her pass by Florida...

So, what do you do the day after you get your ASA 104 and 114 certification?  You do your first bareboat charter of course.  So after waking...