SAILING VESSEL CHARMED

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Yesterday evening we got the first James Bond movie out. We watched The Living Daylights, featuring Timothy Dalton. By the time we get to ...

We have settled in to the voyage. Watches are going smoothly and changing nicely. Most of the last day was comfortable motorsailing. Righ...

Finally at 14:00 we are in the Atlantic. Seas are 1 to 2 feet. Wind is 7 knots at 120 Magnetic. We will be motorsailing when we get aroun...

We departed Telemar Marina at 08:10 and headed north for Port Canaveral. We bent the wind indicator and the lightning arrestor on the first...

A week ago I got up, began making coffee, and began looking at the weather, knowing that I would be packing in just a few hours. But the pac...

The wagers will soon be made. An early estimate, if we do get started out of Port Canaveral at 12:00 pm Monday, we will likely make Town Cut...

We thought we would be right behind the boats participating in ARC Europe, but we will be a week or more behind now: ARC EUROPE DAILY LOGS

Captain says we go Monday!

Twice a day we look closely at the weather. After this morning's review, it looks like we will depart Sunday, although we are keeping t...

Click on the mark for current weather: NATIONAL DATA BUOYS

Here are weather and wave observations near where we expect to be at the end of the first day out: CANAVERAL EAST WEATHER WAVE OBSERVATIONS ...

While we don't have the professionals' reports yet, we are delayed. We can't imagine leaving in the weather we will be experienc...

Click here to see a map: CAPE CANAVERAL TO LISBON To put the upcoming voyage across the Atlantic on Jay Sea Dee in perspective, first, each...

Dear Friends! Some of you have been following this blog or otherwise already know the latest about our journey on Charmed. I wanted to recap...

Follow Craig aboard Jay Sea Dee as the crew takes off from Melbourne, Florida, on May 19 and heads for Lisbon, Portugal by way of Bermuda an...

Charmed is settled in her slip at Twin Dolphin Marina in Bradenton, Florida. This is a beautiful and clean marina, with excellent facilities...

I admit, when we lived in Florida, I never really "saw" the pelican. After living on the water for almost two years, you can'...

It looks to be a five pound snook. I wonder if he won the fishing tournament.

It's all good!  However, the end of the hiatus from work is near. After two years of extended cruising Debbie and I are landing on the w...

It turns out it was just the oil pressure sender on Charmed that had failed, leaving us with a gauge on the engine instrument panel that alw...

On our way to the West Coast of Florida, we stopped to anchor at Little Shark River. We heard the mosquitos and noseeums were bad up the ri...

Google Maps is a wonderful application. We wish we could have displayed where we were in real time with family and friends, however, there ...

Sometimes weather forecasts are favorable. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes forecasts are accurate. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes yo...

Here is Obie from Jay Sea Dee, getting a ride from owner Jodi (from Jay Sea Dee). Obie loves to get off the boat, but his little legs wear o...

Here is Morning Wind, Plan Sea, Charmed and Jay Sea Dee in January for an unscheduled Island Packet Minivous at the Exuma Cays Land and Sea ...

Does anyone know how the oil pressure sender works to drive the oil pressure gauge? While motor sailing a day or so ago we watched the oil p...

Jenny (from Lady) and I were on the hunt for sand dollars at Gillam Bay at Green Turtle Cay, Abacos, Bahamas, and look what we found! I neve...

For more pictures of this concert and Great Guana Cay, see the slide show under Photographs. Aside from the fact that we enjoyed a terrific ...

Jodi from Jay Sea Dee is ready for The Barefoot Man concert to begin at Nippers in Great Guana Cay, Abacos.

Great Guana Cay, Abacos, Bahamas.

The Bahamian lobstermen use this simple design to "trap" their lobster. Once these are placed, the lobsterman puts a waypoint on ...

We stopped in Spanish Wells on February 27 and took at slip at Spanish Wells Yacht Haven. We had read in the Charts and in the cruising guid...

It was early afternoon when we arrived at Spanish Wells (northern tip of Eleuthera, Bahamas), and we had little time to waste (stores would ...

So how does this guy get his boat heeled over so much with no wind and no sails?? Look closely, and you'll see the light water . . . thi...

A recurring issue in the Bahamas is what side of the Islands to sail on, the Bank side, or the Ocean or Sound side. The difference is in ho...

That's what the wild pigs at Big Majors Spot at Sampson Cay (Exuma Cays, Bahamas) seem to be saying as they leave the beach and enter t...

Our insurance allows us to go to the Bahamas between November 1 and June 1, so we went nearly as far south as we could ... to Duncan Town, t...

All the natural forces finally came together on February 12 to give us the paradise that we always knew we would find in the Bahamas. At 6:3...

From George Town, we participated in a 41-boat sailing regatta to Long Island. Although the winds were somewhat fickle for most of the day,...

On a visit to Thompson Bay in Long Island, Bahamas, for $5.00, Tryphena, proprietor of Club Thompson Bay, will take you to a "secret be...

What else would you expect to find on Sand Dollar Beach in George Town, Exumas, but sand dollars! This is one I found on a beautiful walk al...

We have found that having multiple slide shows slows the opening of our site. So we are trying something new with our photos. We have adde...

. . . but not a drop to drink. Fresh water on Charmed has rarely been an issue. We carry 260 gallons. In the states we made sure we could ...

We live by the weather. Last Sunday we had hoped to depart Black Point and get half way to George Town. Then Monday would also be a short v...

We just landed at Black Point after an uneventful voyage from Staniel Cay. There is a great laundry here so while Debbie is drying, I am blo...

We had hoped to move out of Warderick Wells today, thinking the strong cold front would reach and then pass us last night. Winds are still ...

We don't know how big a speck of land has to be to be called a Cay or an Island, but within a mile of the mooring here is this little sp...

The good news, two solutions to our furling line issue are in play. One fellow cruiser lies Georgetown anchorage and has line available from...

Charmed is now hanging on Mooring 13 at Warderick Wells, 24 23.687N, 76 37.942W, the center of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. The Park Ra...

It turns out we are one day later than planned clearing in at Chub Cay. With little to no wind for crossing from No Name Harbor to Gun Cay, ...

We arrived in No Name Harbor yesterday after our friends, Eva and Ed from Makai, assured us there was plenty of room. Indeed, we are all qu...

Karen and Gary were able to join us for the offshore run from North Lake Worth to Miami Beach on January 4. They drove two cars from Stuart...

On Saturday, January 3, as we motored down the ICW from Vero Beach to Lake Worth, our friend Jim (Wind Runner) gave us a flyover in his yell...

It was a wonderful holiday surprise when Gary Goforth called the other day. Gary is an old friend from school days. We were able to meet i...

The subject antenna and card was installed on Charmed today. Well, it was laid on the the deck and fired up. It works great. The card in ...

What Craig forgot to mention was the water line! Yesterday we took (for the umpteenth time) provisions to Charmed, and after we unloaded a...

With Charmed 99.44% provisioned for the voyage to the Bahamas, we will soon be moving again. We will depart Daytona Beach Thursday, looking ...

Santa brought us a Grundig G5 Radio! It looks well built. We'll have to see if it works well getting far off stations. Right now I ha...

While here in St Augustine with the new engine out of the break in period, we have had the chance to check the max speed of an AB 10VL with ...

Look for two new mooring fields in St. Augustine next summer, one north of the Bridge of Lyons and one south, to be installed by the City. W...

While in Oriental, as we lamented over weather forecasts, Tom (Whispering Sea) shared a quip I like ... NOAA or Don't NOAA. It often see...

It has been a long while since we posted.  We have nothing to do, and we are three days late! Today we landed in St Augustine.  You can see ...

Charmed and Snark spent two nights in Mill Creek in worrisome weather, weather that has you up on a regular schedule to check anchoring gear...

Charmed and Snark lie at anchor in Mill Creek.  For a month or more, the weather has been wonderful.  Yesterday it turned wet.  Last night i...

Inflatables may periodically need a little air.  They may periodically need air released from them.  It is good to read the manual about how...

On October 5, 2008, Debbie and two friends, Radeen (Island Spirit) and Vanessa (Wind Runner), launched a new website for women sailors . . ....

Upon starting the auxiliary engine we check for water in the exhaust 100% of the time.  Upon starting the generator engine we used to check ...

It doesn't seem right, putting water into the air intake of a diesel engine, but Yanmar wants you to periodically wash your turbo. The p...

Charmed was launched sixteen months ago with two coats of Pettit Ultima SR Ablative Bottom Paint, a blue signal coat, and a black finish coa...

Charmed's one year old white dinghy looks brand new again!  Over the last year, we have kept it as clean as we could, washing it periodi...