WeBeSailing
Annie & Eric www.WeBeSailing.com Joined: September 26th 2006
Logged in: October 21st 2011
Logged in: October 21st 2011
Vivre à la découverte de l’aventure !!!
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Annie & Eric
web site: www.WeBeSailing.com
e-mail:WeBeSailing@yahoo.com
Aboard s/v WeBeSailing a 60 foot Bermudian Sailing Ketch
Travel Blog Posts
Rose Island
Lose your 17 layers of clothing, stop sloshing around and park the woolly mammoth booths.. Trade it all in for flip flops and your skimpy attire! Unhook from the regularity and free yourself from the mundane.... This morning, when we turned on the radio to collect our weather information, our routers provided a quick update on the freezing storms hitting the mid-west and travelling towards the north-eastern coast of the US and Canada. Today is one of those days where we reflect on our surroundings in appreciation for the privileged way that we live. For the past several days, we have been anchored in a beautiful little lagoon, surrounded by turquoise warm waters and fair skies. The warm ocean breezes top the 80’s during the day and are a pleasant 65-70 during our slumber hours. ... read more
Junkanoo Nassau 2010
Junk Junk Junkanoo, Junk Junk Junkanoo.... This is the rhythm that bellows threw the streets of downtown Nassau as thousands of people gather to view an incredible array of floats, costumes and dancers surrounded by musicians blowing their trumpets and horns, clanging their bells and pounding their drums to the beat of joyful songs. You can’t help but join into the beat and sway side to side as if you were part of it all...because you ARE part of it all!!! This year, we were privileged to be in Nassau during this annual festival. Similar to Mardi Gras in the southern US and Brazil’s festival in Rio de Janeiro, this is the mark of the Bahamas and what a colourful one it is indeed. We were mesmerised by the beauty of their costumes and hypnotised by ... read more
Your Pirate Crew Annie and Eric
Pirates! Pirates! The Pirates are coming!!!! Sail-Ho!!! (As the sinister black flag of a pirate ship has been spotted...) These are the fearful cries we could imagine were yelped back in the days where pillaging and plundering the goods of others was common practice among sailing thieves of that period. Dressed in colourful cloths, stitched with leathers and lace, adorned by headpieces as individual as the thieves they decorated and armed to the hilt with sharp cutlass swords, impressive flintlock pistols and muskets and knives of all sorts, these “Merchant Marines” gone bad commanded the fear and respect of all those they crossed. A most colourful history indeed... This summer, we spend 5 months in St-Augustine Florida, a historic town erected in the mid 1500’s with a vast history of discovery and piracy. This pearl of ... read more
WeBeSailing Sunset
Last week we had 2 fun couples come back to join us for 2 weeks cruising the Exumas and Eric finally had some serious competition with fishing and lobstering. It’s funny... When you put spears or poles in the hands of otherwise civilised, well mannered men, they suddenly transform into hunting machines and slowly revert back to their ancestor cavemen. For anyone who doesn’t quite know how lobster hunting works...here’s a little “lobstering 101”: 1) Squeeze into the original wetsuit you owned when you were 19 to convince your wife that your body hasn’t morphed in the past 25 years. May require the use of butter and possibly forceps.... 2) Waddle into the skiff being extra careful when bending to ensure no seams rip on your suit. 3) Make sure you have all the essential tools: ... read more
Warderick wells Exumas!!
We’ve been in the Bahamas already for 3 weeks now and have already had our first guests onboard. We sailed to the Exumas and spent a lovely week visiting islands we had set foot on some 3 years ago. Can’t believe it had already been 3 years since we had enjoyed these crystal waters. Finally meeting back up with some great friends that we met during our travels along the east US coast. IE: s/c Katmandu , s/v Emma & many more.. You really meet some great people while living a cruising life style. We traveled from Nassau to Norman’s cay, setting anchor in the deeper waters since we draw 7 feet... When we went ashore, we quickly noticed that, aside from the vegetation growing in, that not much, if anything, had changed. We walked ... read more
Tiki Hut Cabin
New Providence - Nassau, Bahamas. We are finally anchored in the clear waters of the Bahamas!! In order to get this far well we had to go through two hurricanes, a bunch of tropical storms and way too many cold fronts to count!! Not to forget breaking through ice on the ICE in Jacksonville Beach Florida (see photos to prove it) !! All this being said, it’s all still worth it as this is the first step in our long adventurous journey!! We have been very busy finishing up our long list of projects, and ended spending some five weeks in Jacksonville Beach at the Palm Cove marina. We left Jacksonville on Jan. 10th and started making way south again... We spent several days in Vero Beach to make an onboard generator switch!! The 3KW genset ... read more
Burrr...
We are finally on the warmer side and back where palm trees grow, pelicans fly overhead and Dolphins swim along side of us. It feels so good to be back and have the tropics within reach. We have lost our tuques and parkas and have traded in for shorts and T’s. Things are going really well and we are making way as the weather permits. We are now in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and our plan is to continue south along the Florida coast and then set sail off shore and cross around mid December or so. Keep watching our spot messages as to track our progress south at www.WeBeSailing.com and open the Spot tab. Ok now for more the juicier side of things.... 1) We have changed our destination for this winter And 2) We have ... read more
New York City
Good day to all, We are currently sitting in Beaufort North Carolina, Since we last wrote to you, we left Sandwich MA and have sailed all the way to Cape May. NJ, via New York, then down to Cape May NJ, up the Delaware and down the Chesapeake and to Beaufort via the ICW . When leaving Sandwich, the timing for passing through the canal must be properly timed since there are very strong currents pushing (or pulling) you through. Once you come to the end of the canal, into Buzzards Bay, you must ensure the weather is in your favour since the waves, combined with the current in the bay, make for strong rip tides that churn around your vessel and make the ride quite bumpy (like being in a washing machine). The sailing ... read more
Shellsea sunbathing
New England coast of the United States, Hello to all, Since we last posted, we have travelled further along the eastern US seaboard stopping in a couple places along the way. We had to sit out some poor weather in Portland ME, where an overnight transiting dockage turned out to be a week at the dock. We stayed in a really nice marina called Spring Point and the dock master there, Ian, was a really nice guy. Most surrounding marinas in the area charge between $2.50-$3.25 per linear foot of vessel, but since it was off season, Ian only charged us $1/ft. We forgot to mention that our boat has a tendency to shrink when entering a marina... specially in cold waters. So we were charged for 50 feet, and that, for only 5 of ... read more
Southwest Harbour
Cutler & Southwest Harbour Maine, Cutler Maine, USA On the morning of Sept 26th 2009, we finally set sail from Brier Island, making route for Cutler Maine. It was a beautiful sunny day which made for a nice sail, with great winds and kind seas... We arrived in Cutler harbour at around 7pm and grabbed a mooring ball for the night. The town of Cutler is on the small side but well known for its Blueberries, Blueberries, Blueberries.... There’s a church, like any good American town, but that’s it!! No general store, no gas station, no groceries and most importantly of all....NO liquor store!!! But what the town lacks in services is made up by the exceptional kindness of it’s inhabitants. Cutler may be a small lobstering town but it sure has some big hearts ... read more
