Sailing Caprivi

By Jade CouturierOn June 10, 2023June 10, 2023

The Tot club, invited as guests by Chris and Amanda on SV Trumpeter, is a ritual that hasn’t skipped a day for thirty years..

By Jade CouturierOn May 19, 2023May 24, 2023

Four days before Mike was to arrive – his bags likely packed a week or two prior – we quickly squeeze in one more.

By Jade CouturierOn April 6, 2023April 8, 2023

A week had passed since our friends had departed, yet we were still in the same posy in Sainte Pierre, Martinique. I don’t have.

By Jade CouturierOn March 30, 2023May 24, 2023

After a pleasing four hour reach down island we tack our way into the bay of Portsmouth, Dominica. Elvis – a kind natured man.

By Jade CouturierOn February 28, 2023May 24, 2023

We clear out of St Barts before the sun begins to set, hoisting our main and genoa sails, and securing the preventer for an.

By Jade CouturierOn January 28, 2023March 26, 2023

Six weeks down island. Antigua for three weeks, south to Guadeloupe and back north through to the Virgin Islands. It’s flown by. Yet what.

By Jade CouturierOn December 15, 2022May 24, 2023

It’s been a week since we arrived in Antigua & Barbuda as I begin to type these words of our passage south. We’re sitting.

By Jade CouturierOn November 16, 2022May 24, 2023

With our plans for the following morning to head south from Newport on this coming northerly, we had yet to decide whether it would.

By Jade CouturierOn November 11, 2022May 24, 2023

Early September we had Caprivi’s mast removed. The standing rigging was a big project to finally cross off the list. The evening prior we.

By Jade CouturierOn September 8, 2022May 24, 2023

Leaving the Woodenboat School bay, we head towards the Merchant Islands but get headed with winds on the nose and a cross tidal current..