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18 June – History, power projection, old friends and peace in the Chesapeake

By Richard. Posted on June 26th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

37:23.1N 076:20.5W Our eldest daughter Anna arrived from New York on Friday evening for the weekend. Appropriately enough, Lizzie joine...

13 June – Cape Hatteras, the Outer Banks and some serious ‘dit spinning’

By Richard. Posted on June 23rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

36:55.4N 076:11.4W The road trip to Charleston was straightforward, if long. The Carolinas are fairly flat, with plenty of forest and so...

11 June – from Charleston to the Chesapeake

By Richard. Posted on June 23rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

36:55.4N 076:11.3W Thursday 7 June was another beautiful sunny day in South Carolina. Paul Watkins came over in the morning and I did m...

7 June – Exploring Charleston, South Carolina

By Richard. Posted on June 15th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

32:46.55N 079:57.2W [First off, an apology. The boat computer has ‘upgraded’ itself and now my Adobe Photoshop doesn’t work. So for th...

31 May – Georgia on my mind?

By Richard. Posted on June 14th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

31:09.4N 081:30W The weather forecast for the weekend in St Augustine was rather mixed: fine on Saturday, but the tail end of tropical S...

26 May – Heading North along Florida’s Atlantic coast

By Richard. Posted on June 7th, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

29:53.6N 081:18.6W We sailed from Key West at sunset, appropriately enough for the self-styled ‘home of the sunset’. It’s a great place...

20 May – Of Mustangs and cats in the Florida Keys

By Richard. Posted on June 3rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

24:33.9N 81:48.2W On Saturday 19th, we embarked on our first US road trip. You have to do these things properly, so we hired a bright r...

18 May – discovering the Conch Republic and the Dry Tortugas

By Richard. Posted on June 3rd, 2018 in North Atlantic 2017 – 2019, USA.

24:33.9N 81:48.1W It’s just 90 miles to Key West and the passage should have been pretty straightforward. Indeed it was, until daylight...

13 May – images of rural Cuba

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W On Sunday, our last day in Cuba, we returned to Marina Hemingway via an UNESCO biosphere reserve called Las Terrazas....

12 May – Heading west in Cuba

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W The journey from Havana to Viñales took about two and a half hours along a reasonably well maintained, almost empty du...

10 May – Havana Main Course

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W On Thursday, we enlisted Rafia as a guide and returned to the city centre to ‘do the sights’. The weather was threate...

9 May – Havana Aperitif

By Richard. Posted on May 30th, 2018 in Cuba, North Atlantic 2017 – 2019.

23:05.3N 082:30.1W The morning after our arrival at Marina Hemingway, a car picked us up and whisked us off to breakfast with the Pakista...

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18 June – History, power projection, old friends and peace in the Chesapeake

13 June – Cape Hatteras, the Outer Banks and some serious ‘dit spinning’

11 June – from Charleston to the Chesapeake

7 June – Exploring Charleston, South Carolina

31 May – Georgia on my mind?

26 May – Heading North along Florida’s Atlantic coast

20 May – Of Mustangs and cats in the Florida Keys

18 May – discovering the Conch Republic and the Dry Tortugas

13 May – images of rural Cuba

12 May – Heading west in Cuba

10 May – Havana Main Course

9 May – Havana Aperitif