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This edition of The Strange and Not So Glamorous Boat Life reveals the reality of domestic life onboard. Continue reading “The Strange and Not So Glamorous Boat Life – Part 2”

After escaping the baguette-induced haze of the French islands, it was back to speaking good old English in the Grenadines. While the Grenadine Islands are composed of around 600 islands and islets between St. Vincent and Grenada, we only visited three: Bequia, Petit St. Vincent, and Carriacou. Continue reading “The Scene in the Grenadines”

S/V Boundless has reached its southernmost point on this voyage: Prickly Bay on the south coast of Grenada. This juncture seemed like an appropriate time to read out some statistics on our travels. Continue reading “Our Southernmost Point: Interim Stats”

This trip is mostly about fun – sailing, swimming, meeting people, exploring. But regular day to day things still need to happen – shopping, eating, using water and electricity, communicating. Continue reading “The Strange and Not So Glamorous Boat Life – Part 1”

Boundless spent a full month anchored in Martinique, allowing us to really settle in to the Caribbean cruising life, further polish our emerging French language skills, and eat unlimited baguettes. Continue reading “Settling into Martinique”

We left Antigua at sunrise on December 29th for a lovely 5 hour sail to Guadeloupe. On the way we gawked at Montserrat and the steam coming out of the active volcano. We dropped anchor off the town of Deshaies (pronounced Day-hay), dropped the dinghy, and went to town to check in. 

Continue reading “Vivre Une Vie Française en Guadeloupe! (Living a French Life in Guadeloupe!)”

After 6 days offshore from Bermuda, seeing the green hills of Antigua was the sign that we really made it to the Caribbean.  Continue reading “Amazing Antigua”

We planned to leave as early in the morning as possible from Bermuda to avoid a front that was nearing our location. Because of this we arrived at Bermuda customs in St. George’s at 8am. As we pulled Boundless up to the customs dock, an official was on the dock, which was odd. He offered to catch our line and said “we have a problem, and unfortunately, our problem is your problem”. Continue reading “Passage to Antigua”

After 4 days at sea, Boundless checked into Bermuda shortly after sunset on Wed, Nov 8 and stayed for 15 days before heading to Antigua. Continue reading “Hanging Out in Bermuda”