When the wind allowed, we headed south from Man-O-War Cay to Elbow Cay. We’ve been there several times before with guests, since it offers a good variety of activities. For the first time, we found an available mooring ball inside the Hope Town Harbor, which made for a very comfortable three night stay with easy…

Spanish Cay is one of the northern-most islands in the Abacos, so it was easy to reach from North Carolina. Once we rested and explored the cay, it was time to go deeper into the Abacos. The wind was calm and the sea was flat, so we had a very pleasant motor trip to Green…

After a five day passage, we arrived in the Bahamas on the morning of January 9th. As always, the passage went to plan — and didn’t. We’ve been really pleased with the weather routing service we use and have found that in combination with our own review and planning, we have a generally good idea…

Having spent the fall and holidays on land, we were excited to return to Tilia just before the New Year. Of course, there was a lot of preparation to complete prior to leaving our home marina in Merritt, NC. Having completed our preparations, we traveled about 6 hours down the intracoastal waterway to spend the…

After a quick trip from Norfolk to North Carolina, we tackled some boat projects before heading home to Minneapolis…

We left Annapolis and started our journey south towards the ICW. Along the way we visited some familiar sites and some places new to us…

We spent a couple days in Onset and then made rapid progress to Annapolis, including a couple nights at sea…

After nearly two months exploring Nova Scotia, it was time to return to the US. We made a 60 hour trip from Halifax to the US, and got a chance to see some sailing buddies…

Our niece Lucy and her fiancé, Tyler, joined us for some sailing in Canada. Hurricane Erin forced us to alter our plans a bit, but we still had fun together…

We’ve spent two weeks exploring a 30 nm stretch of Nova Scotia, enjoying the beautiful scenery, towns and anchorages in this area…