Spacegrazer

We are in Shelter Bay Marina in Panama, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Panama is in lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Our plan before recent events was to go through the canal and sail to New Zealand. We would spend about 6 months sailing the South Pacific on our way there, […]

Wow! What a year the last week has been. We’ve been backwards and forwards and everywhere in-between. Do we go or do we stay? As all of the destinations between here and NZ closed down due to COVID-19, the feeling of control slipped further away. This is unprecedented times for everybody. The choices that were […]

We hired a car today and went on a short road trip inland to Nine Mile, the birth and resting place (Mount Zion) of Bob Marley. Jamaica and it’s people are charming. We heard a lot of negative things about Jamaica before we came here, mainly from people who haven’t been. ‘It’s dangerous.’ ‘People are […]

In our previous lives we both worked fulltime. That was before and after we had the kids. We both did most things around the house. There was no conscious divide between the pink and blue jobs. Boat life with kids changed that. Our terrible trio are so close in age that they are like a […]

After three days on the boat and two nights of uncomfortable motoring 200M into the wind from Cayman Islands to Montego Bay, Jamaica we were ready for some serious relaxing, preferably on land. Things started to go skewed when B said, ‘shit the paddle board has gone!’ Except for really long passages, and unless the […]

Today was so much fun! We went on a dinghy ride around Grand Cayman’s North Sound to visit Stingray City and Starfish Point. First up was Stingray City. We had been looking forward to this ever since we anchored in Governor’s Creek. Up until now, it had been too windy for us to make this […]

We are really enjoying the beautiful, long stretch of beach here. It is called Seven Mile Beach, but is ¨only¨5 miles long. Well, that is enough for us!

We are still in Grand Cayman – The Cayman Islands´ main island – but we moved from Georgetown to Governors Creek. We had enough of cruise ships blaring their horns – although one ship tooted the tune of the Love Boat, which was good fun, once. Plus, there were high winds in the forecast and […]

We have been in the Cayman Islands for a few weeks now. On December 31, we arrived in the main town of Georgetown to check into the country. Since it was New Year´s Eve, and nearly the end of the working day, the staff was keen to check us in quickly and get out of […]

We have been in Cienfuegos for a while now. Spacegrazer is anchored just outside the marina. It´s lovely here. The bay is very sheltered, so no rolling around, and safe to jump off for a swim. The town is friendly and relaxed, much more so than Havana. The water is not super clean, but well […]

We have arrived in Cienfuegos after a long trip from Havana, around the western tip of Cuba. We made two stops along the way – one at Cabo San Antonio, the cape at the westernmost point of the island. The second stop we made at Maria la Gorda, just around the corner on the south […]

On our way from Havana to Cuba’s south coast, we are making a short stop in Maria la Gorda (fat Maria). It’s looking pretty relaxed here.

We’re in Cuba baby! Checked in and tied up in Hemingway Marina.

Antifouling and topsides – check. Max will paint the deck next week. New zincs. We took the swim platform off and fixed some fibreglass damage and replaced the motor on it. Took the prop strut off and sent off to the welder for reinforcing. It’s been like camping in your own home for the last […]

Today we went to the Wings, Wheels and Keels festival here in Virginia. As the name suggests, there would be planes, classic cars and boats on display. Beau, Kai and Zoë immediately spotted the kids area: bouncy castle, slide, a merry go round – they were all there! So we started at the bouncy castle, […]

Today we were reunited with 3 other kid boats that we have been sailing with! Our American friends on Mrs. Chippy were there. We have known them since November 2017. We met in Sicily, where we spent the winter together in the same marina. That was a fun time. 8 families, with a total of […]

We are in Washington DC! We were in the Chesapeake area, ready to get the boat lifted out of the water. But due to the uncertain path of hurricane Dorian, we changed our plans. The hurricane could have caused bad weather where we were: high winds and lots of rain. The yard owners warned us […]