Today we took the subway to Penn Station and walked to the High Line for an elevated stroll along the west side of downtown Manhattan. The High Line is a walking track, built on a disused train track. Their website explains it much better: The High Line is a public park built on a historic […]
A Day in Brooklyn
Today we rode the subway to Brooklyn. Destination: the Children’s Museum of Brooklyn. The kids played shop, pretended to run a pizza restaurant, built chairs and tried Mardi gras costumes. On the way home, it rained. We had a great time regardless.
Feeling Like a Normal Tourist – Taking the HOHO Bus in NYC
We have been sailing the world on Spacegrazer for more than 3 years now, so we do not consider ourselves tourists. No, we are intrepid travelers, adventurers, floating gypsies… Just call it something interesting. Being in a big city like New York though, we are behaving a lot like tourists. And that’s okay, because sightseeing […]
Arriving in New York City
We wanted to be in New York City for Fourth of July, and we made it! Entering the Manhattan area was pretty exciting. We were all on deck, lifejackets on, camera ready. After sailing under the Verrazano Bridge, we could make out more and more of the famous skyline. A tiny Statue of Liberty also […]
The USA Baby!
June 2019: Forty, Landfall & Turning North At the beginning of June we finally left The Bahamas and pointed Spacegrazer towards Florida. After riding the Gulf Stream like a freight train overnight, we arrived in St Augustine and came through the Bridge of Lions first thing in the morning. The Spacegrazers were officially in the […]
May 2019 – The Bahamas
Early May began with one of the more sobering reminders of life at sea. After leaving the BVI’s, we approached Grand Turk just as another vessel struck the reef. What began as a pan-pan call escalated to a mayday as their 45-foot boat was pounded on the rocks. Our friends from No Worries were nearby […]
April 2019: Island Days
March and April were mostly spent bouncing around St Maarten, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands. In St Maarten and the BVI’s we were happily hanging out with our friends on s/v No Worries — Claudia, Rick and their crew. Those weeks slipped by in a rhythm of shared anchorages, children drifting between boats, and […]
Life’s a Beach in Barbuda
Barbuda is one of the most beautiful places we have seen in the Caribbean so far. There are miles of pristine beach – quiet, clean and with the most amazing colours. The first day we spent anchored near Coco Point. We had been told to look out for the wild horses that roam around the […]
Gathering in Guadeloupe
Arriving in Guadeloupe and its little outlying islands, Les Saintes (or The Saints), we had to check into France again. I like the French islands because I get to polish up my high-school French, and, more importantly, we get to stock up on amazing cheese, wine and fresh baguettes and pains au chocolat. Our first […]
Dominica Days – Portsmouth
We would have loved to stay in the bay of Roseau a bit longer and do more hiking and exploring, but the swell was uncomfortable and we had enough of rolling around in our beds at night! So, we cast the lines off of our mooring buoy, said goodbye to our awesome guide Mr. Beanz, […]
Dominica Days – Roseau
Dominica is beautiful. One of our guidebooks said that if Christopher Columbus would sail around the Caribbean now, he would probably only recognise Dominica. Unspoilt nature is what makes this such a fantastic island. Dominica is also the only Caribbean island to have a surviving population of Carib Indians. The Carib Territory is an area […]
Piñata Party – Kai and Zoë turn 6
Kai and Zoë are now 6 years’ old! When we moved aboard they were 3. A lot has happened in that time. We have adopted a new birthday tradition from our friends on Mrs. Chippy: piñatas! Since we generally cannot buy them underway, we made our first piñata ourselves this year: a red Angry Bird. […]
Cumberland Bay – Saint Vincent
Bye Bye in Bequia In Bequia we had said goodbye to our friends on Nikau. They have to travel faster than us, since they plan to go through Panama Canal and sail their boat all the way back to New Zealand. It has been amazing hanging out with this cool family. They make fantastic videos […]
Beaching it in Bequia
No we did not beach Spacegrazer anywhere, luckily. But we did go to the beach a lot, and when we did, we beached our dinghy. So there you have it: the island of Bequia (pronounced Beck-way) is good for that. Beaching it baby! I had actually never heard of Bequia before sailing to it. Reading […]
Exploring More of the Grenadines
The Grenadines is a group of Caribbean islands, some of which are part of Grenada, and some of Saint Vincent. After visiting Grenada, Carriacou and Sandy Island in the Grenada part of the islands, we were now ready to explore Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The first island to visit would be Union Island, where […]
Sandy Island Forever!
Sandy Island is an amazing little spot, just off the larger island of Carriacou. We arrived late in the afternoon from Grenada and our friends from Boag, Mrs. Chippy and Nikau were already there. Paul helped us tie to the mooring ball (our bow is so high above the waterline that we find it really […]
Great Grenada
Grenada was the next Caribbean island we visited after arriving in Barbados from our Atlantic crossing. We did not explore Barbados much, because we were sort of jet-lagged after our epic sail there. So Grenada felt like the first real Caribbean island to us. After dropping our anchors in Prickly Bay, we caught up with […]
The Atlantic crossing: Cape Verde to Barbados
Day 1 On Sunday, December 16, we departed from Mindelo, Cape Verde. We left together with our friends on four other boats: Boag, Mrs Chippy, Nikau, and Sorisso. We broke our fishing rod trying to reel in a big fish and slowing down the boat at the same time. Annoying! We have a hand reel […]
Mindelo, Cape Verde
We sailed from the Canaries to Cape Verde first, rather than directly to Barbados, to break up the Atlantic crossing into smaller chunks. It would have probably taken us 3 weeks to cross directly. With the Cape Verde stopover, we would shorten the longest passage to approximately 2 weeks. Mindelo has the windiest harbour we […]
Gran Canaria to Cape Verde
On Thursday December 6, we depart from Gran Canaria together with sailing yacht Sorisso. At the same time, our friends on sailing vessels Mrs Chippy, Boag and Nikau leave from different islands in the Canaries. Our destination: Mindelo on the Cape Verde Islands. We have daily contact with all boats via satellite or VHF radio. […]