I find it so bizarre that the general expectation of sailing is to have carefree, easy-going days letting the winds effortlessly carry you along. It is not news to me that sailing is often the exact opposite of that image. Most days unfortunately bring challenges and great discomfort both physically and mentally. The ‘magic’ of…
Author: starship138
Merry Christmas!
So much has happened since I last blogged. I guess you could say reality hit us in the face pretty hard during our attempt to sail from Pensacola to Key West. Backing up a bit… …while in Turners, we did receive our mainsail on December 7th as expected. Very shortly after that we started making…
Rivers Conquered
I live on the ocean! Okay that felt good, let’s do that again…. I live on the ocean! At about noon on Friday, November 24th, Starship’s bow pushed into salt water for the very first time. As if planned, the clouds decided to stay back on the rivers as the sun shown bright and warm….
Sailing the Final Journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On this very day, in the year I was born, came the wreck of the ore carrier ship, Edmund Fitzgerald. It was on November 10th, 1975 that a gale hit pulling the good ship and all twenty-nine souls on board to rest on the bottom of frigid Lake Superior. If you are not familiar with…
Halfway down the inland rivers!
It’s now November so that means that we have been living on Starship for four months now as we continue on our three year journey that will soon take into the Caribbean waters and then onto two planned ocean passages. Since Chicago, we have conquered the following rivers – Calumet, Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio. We…
Rivers Wild
The rivers have not been the ‘easy’ experience I was expecting. I am not exactly sure what I had been basing that assumption on but it was definitely not accurate. Since Chicago, we have now travelled about 200 nautical miles in only 7 days. We feel we have earned a couple lay days which we…
City Life!
Since beginning the Big Trip, Chicago has now been the place we’ve stayed in the longest and for good reason – there is so much to see and do! Two weeks ago, we pulled into our slip at Montrose Marina, located on the northern end of Lincoln Park. Today we started the next big leg…
Friends, family and good times!
It has finally happened for me! This no longer feels like we are on one of our sailing vacations. Since moving onto Starship more than two months ago we have been to 26 anchorages and/or marinas, travelled on three lakes and are now in a different country from where we began. Yup, our life definitely…
Hello Lake Michigan!
My goal to blog once a week is very hard to meet. Often, we sail most of the day and once at our marina or anchorage we are off exploring or launching into our evening activities that typically consist of boat maintenance, making dinner and playing card or boardgames. We also agree with the term…
We crossed Lake Superior!
August 14 – Something truly wonderful happened on the Slate Islands! A few days ago we heard there was an outdoor bathtub somewhere on the islands but I tried to not get my hopes up… Jason and Dylan had set out in the dingy to go fishing for a few hours while I read on…
The Big Trip 