A blog by nerds afloat
After clicking on a post and reading it, hit the “Back” button on your browser to return to this page so that you can read only the highlighted posts. Otherwise, if you click the “Next Post” button on the post page, you will be stuck reading the whole blog! WordPress really sucks sometimes! (Okay, fine. Mel sucks at WordPress. This is hard, people!) There are still a lot of posts– about 135. Hop to it!
Currently in between guests, the Burnetts have been experiencing what they call, “Cat Days.” These are the sort of days that separate the cruisers from the charterers or the daysailors. For us, “Cat Days” are days where one lies around … Read More
Like many other cruisers, we were going to skip the tiny island of Samana on our way north. The charts depict it as an island surrounded by reefs and shipwrecks, and multiple cruiser’s websites basically say, “Don’t go there.” However, … Read More
The Burnetts are in our happy place—the Bahamas! We shot up to Mayaguana from Anegada on a beautiful, straightforward, trouble-free three-day passage where we flew the spinnaker in 10-22 kts of true wind almost the entire time, averaging 7.1 kts … Read More