S/V Aphrodite

After 3.5 days of near perfect conditions and flying the spinnaker, the seas and wind began to build and clock. Then we badly damaged our spinnaker during the takedown yesterday afternoon. Last night the winds veered to the north and built to 27-35 kts bringing huge seas of 15-17 feet. We are reefed-,down and the [...]

After a few false starts, some repairs and a brief visit to see the new grand daughter in Colorado, we finally got under way yesterday passing under the 17th St. Causway bridge at 3:45 PM and raising sail at 4:00. The winds are favorable from the west and southwest. Yesterday we flew the spinnaker until [...]

Leg
Route
Date

Leg 1A:
Antigua to Bermuda
May 10

Leg 2:
Bermuda to Horta, Faial, Azores
May 23

Leg 3A:
Ponta Delgada to Lagos, Portugal
June 16

Jeri and I will depart on or about May 10th from Fort Lauderdale, FL and join the the ARC Europe 2007 Rally in Bermuda. We’ll leave the ARC in Portugal and we plan to cruise Spain, [...]

Leaving Georgetown was hard where we had  a good grocery store, liquor store and cheap wireless internet on the boat.
We had a full moon the night before we left and this apparently affected the fishing as we trolled 8 hrs in prime fishing water on the way to Conception Island without catching anything, nada, nothing. We [...]

We arrived in Georgetown yesterday after 3 weeks in the Exumas.  We found our friends Pete and Chris on Scooter.  Over the years they have shown us how to spearfish, hunt lobster, find shells and sea glass, and weave palm fronds.  We hung out in a secret cove along with Monty and Sara, the creators [...]

Our life has slowed down again, where the most urgent task for the day is finding a place to buy groceries or do the laundry. Aphrodite has been in the Bahamas for about 2 weeks now, where “it is all about the water”. The landscape doesn’t hold a candle to the magnificent water, crystal clear [...]

We departed Ft. Lauderdale this morning at 10 am after what seems like a frenzied few weeks of boat repairs, replacements and provisioning. I don’t know what it is about being in the States, with a rental car, that drives us to into a free for all shopping spree. It is crazy making! Most of [...]