If you have read our blog before you know I love the schooners and love schoonerfest weekend even more. Last weekend was The 39th Schoonerf

Last weekend Birch and I took a mini vacation north. We traveled to Newburyport, Portsmouth, and Rockport. We do frequent Newburyport,...

We took an overnight to Marblehead ... We decided we needed a break from Gloucester and wanted to go away overnight some where, we didn't...

I want to start by saying I think this is my favorite island of all the islands I have been to in the Amalfi Coast, and this was our last...

Our last sail on the Mediterranean Our last sail in the Mediterranean was one of the best sails we had all week. Don't get me wrong all...

I know I have talked a lot about sweets and treats while in Italy but that is one of the most popular things to do, sit in a cafe and...

This time we went to the Porto D'Ischia, which is the main port on the Island. This is the port where all the ferries come in, and all...

Our flotilla went to Capri but we decided not to and stayed in Amalfi one more night so as not to be rushed around, and if we might not...

Like I said in my last post, we were going to leave and head to Capri but things changed. While in the skippers meeting we heard that...

We woke up in Sorrento and got a pretty good start to the day. Today we spent most of the day on the water sailing down the coast to...

I will start by saying that we finished our trip in Sorrento so there will be much more to say about it later. When we pulled into this...

Let the sailing adventure begin. Our first sail was to the west side of Ischia another island I had never heard of but did not disappoint....

When we arrived in Procida we found out our boat's name was Filomeane and it would be our home for the next week as we sailed around the...

This did not go as planned ... We are now back from our "Trip of a Lifetime" to Italy, and our plan was to blog everyday, and talk about...

This is that time of year when we get Añejo ready for the summer, but this year we decided to delay her splashing in (and because the...

Every spring we take a few days to get Añejo ready to splash in the water for the season. There is so much to do to get a sailboat ready...

Some of you know and some of you do not know, a Catalina 30 Tall Rig was the first boat the Captain and I owned together, well, he would...

Since there are so many books about the sea, some of my friends like to give me books about the sea. And the one thing many of these...

Part of being a boat owner is going to the boat show every winter. There are a few reasons why one goes to the show, and the most...

Off the coast of Rockport is an island called Thacher Island, that has a very rich history, for a very small island. To begin with the...