Mole St-Nicolas: We sailed into this very picturesque village just after 2:30 pm Friday, to a gracious welcome by the villagers along the shore line. It felt as if we where Christopher Columbus ourselves!! What a feeling to arrive in a small, very secluded place were very few come visit. Some of the local fishermen came to us offering their catches of fish, lobster and conch. We exchanged a handful of Gourdes (local Haitian currency) for 10 lobsters, which calculated too around 15 dollars US. After which we went to shore, by way of their local wooden fishing boat, oared by [View Full Entry]

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West Caicos: Today, we made the short hop to West Caicos which took about 5 hours. We made this short sail in order to line ourselves up for a proper (and shorter) departure towards Haiti. We left Providenciales around noon and arrived West Caicos at approximately 5:PM. The plan is to set sail at 11:PM tonight in order to arrive in Haiti during daylight hours. Cheers! Annie & Eric www.WeBeSailing.com [View Full Entry]

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Thursday December 7th 2006 www.WeBeSailing.com Providenciales Turks & Caicos This is our 10th day here~~~~~~~ we are not complaining believe me! The weather has been on the hot side with regular tropical shower off and on.. But it’s all great when we hear that there are 3 inches of snow where we live in Montreal. Our crew, Christiane and Benoit, have sadly departed for Montreal on Tuesday morning. We are sure that they had a shock is waiting in Mtl!!!! Snow on the ground to freeze their asses off….. We will be dropping our dock lines today and will set s [View Full Entry]

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Saturday December 2nd 2006 www.WeBeSailing.com Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - Turtle cove marina The Turk & Caicos Islands, a British dependent territory comprising eight islands and some 40 cays. Lie at the southeastern end of the Bahamas. The Islands are generally flat, with rolling hills, with the highest elevation found on Grand Turk at 250 feet. Legend purports the Islands were named from the scarlet dome of the barrel-shaped Turks Head cactus which reminds one of a Turkish fez and the word “cayos” for small islands. The Islands aptly proclaimed, “Beauti [View Full Entry]

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The crossing from Charleston SC to Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos Friday Nov 24th, Saturday Nov 25th, Sunday Nov 26th, Monday Nov 27th & Tuesday Nov 28th Day One: With Annie and our replacement crew and fresh supplies all on board, we dropped our dock lines and sailed away from Charleston South Carolina at 11:30am on Friday Nov 24th. Exiting the harbor entrance will all sails hoisted and setting to sea by just after lunch. With the first obstacle before us, being the Gulf Stream, some 50 nautical miles to our east, and to arrive at the GS by just [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday November 22nd 2006 www.WeBeSailing.com Charleston, South Carolina, @ the City Marina, This was not planned as one would say, boat plans are made in Jell-O, always moving! My replacement crew is to arrive here tomorrow late afternoon flying in from Montreal. The crew consists of Christine Thuraine, Christine just completed an circumnavigation of 55000 nautical miles from 1996-2005 on her own sailing vessel called Blue Alligator a Caliber 40 monohaul, she is also a trained skipper from the Glenans of France and has also done some transatlantic ra [View Full Entry]

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Monday November 20th 2006 The third storm hit us as predicted on Wednesday night and all was mostly over within a 48 hours. We did get up to gale force winds for a good part of the day, and we where all happy to be safely in port being nicely tucked in at the Tide Water Marina in Portsmouth VA. Sadly we are not in the West Indies as planned!, guess what!! We have arrived in Charleston South Carolina at the city municipal marina!! Why well! on this past Friday everyone was up bright and early stowing final lines and tying [View Full Entry]

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It is now Wednesday November 15th We are still dogging bad weather, pushing our way down the east coast before crossing Gulf Stream, On Monday we dropped our dock lines and set sail offshore for Norfolk VA, arriving here yesterday afternoon. Our over night sail went off without a hitch, sailing here in less than 26 hours. In the night the wind picked up for a short period to the 30 + knots range with some confused seas, but later all died down and we sailing calmly into the Chesapeake Bay. We finally have a great weather window coming to us [View Full Entry]

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Sunday November 12th 2006 Atlantic City, NJ Today the weather here is heavy rain with gusty wind, We all can’t wait to get south!!! Since the last update, we set sail last Wednesday Nov 8th from Manhattan to Sandy Hook NJ. Where we ended up staying two nights at the Atlantic Highlands Marina before setting sail for Atlantic City on this past Friday. We are at the moment still here at the Atlantic City Senator Frank’s Farley State Marina, and this is our third day here waiting for a good weather window to set sail south!!!! Tomorrow morning the plan [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday November 7th 2006 Our crew comprised of Caroline, Miro & Marcel, have arrived on time yesterday evening at 8pm. They made really great time driving in from Montréal via Burlington VT. Everybody is looking forward to a great crossing and all are in great spirit. As of 8am this morning Annie is already sadly traveling back to Montreal via Amtrak. She will arrive this evening around 8pm, where my parents will meet her at the St Lambert train station. We are all looking forward to seeing her again soon in Puerto Rico. In the afternoon we did our last minute [View Full Entry]

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