No One’s Forecast Was Correct
December of 2015 and the first week of January 2016 will live in the weather records, history books, ships' logs and personal diaries for the unusual and extraordinary weather seen in the eastern United States, coastal water of Florida and the Bahamas (published April 2016) Tragically these records will also
Going with the Flow: Navigating the East Australia Current
Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they're three years and thousands of miles apart (published April 2016) In 2011, when I set off from the U.S. East Coast for Panama with my husband and eight year old son, the greatest complicating
The Voyage Starts Here
(published March 2016) Standing at the chart table, my buddy Will and I poured over charts of the Northwest coast from Alaska to Oregon. Large and small scale were all there for us to peruse and we talked of plans ahead; how we’d handle certain stretches of water and, of
Making a Visual Commotion
A guide to everything you should know about visual communication (published March 2016) From our boat anchored alone between cities off the Indian River on July 4th, with NASA’s iconic vehicle assembly building to our east, we enjoyed at least 10 fireworks shows. Complementing the professional shows were any number
Another Uncertain Outcome
Getting a 48' Gunboat catamaran to Cape Hatteras in mid-December might seem like a good idea to some folks, but it could leave a great deal of risk to the imagination (published February 2016) Anjella, a Gunboat 48 I helped to move north from Cape Town, South Africa ten years