The most exciting sailing expedition
Saturday, 15th November Up at 6 following wake-up raindrops striking Destiny. Topped up our fuel tanks at the brightly painted Flying Fish Marina facing the town and took a moment to visit Father Jerome’s curious church overlooking the settlement just…
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Departed Landrail Point, Crooked Island this morning at 10:30 after purchasing fuel and a loaf of Miss Willie’s excellent bread. Motor-sailed forty miles over a calm sea with faint wind directly to Clarence Town Harbour where we anchored near sundown….
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Thirsday november 13th – Day Twelve Up at 6 AM for breakfast and departure from Castle Island with a stubbornly persisting north wind dropping to a flat calm. Without even thinking of hoisting a sail we motored effortlessly over a…
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Up at 6 AM, disappointed to find the wind blowing from the northwest contrary to forecasts and opposed to where we wished to go. Had we time, this northwest wind would have been good for tracing Columbus’s V-shaped deployment of…
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Hogsty Reef is an atoll open to the west rather like a horseshoe heading east. Its northwest and southwest ends are punctuated with sand cays each bearing a low cover of green vegetation. The larger northwest cay supports low bushes…
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It, the archaic ship, shall have lost itself on seas where my unchecked dreams will bathe, and its immense masts shall have become indistinct in the fogs of a heaven of Bible and Sacred Song. And this won’t be the…
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Sunday 9th November – Day Eight The place where we believe Columbus anchored is a tongue of Great Inagua jutting northwest into the sea. Just inside its west coast offering an open roadstead and a sandy bottom, there is a…
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Saturday 8th November – Day Seven Left Abraham’s bay at 3 AM as planned. The forecast southeast wind came from the south, obliging us to motor almost all the way from Mayaguana to the north point of Great Inagua which…
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Arose at 5 AM. Departed Abraham’s Bay around 6. Found the wind set against us and after an hour’s attempt to head to Hogsty, concluded that it would be impossible to reach the atoll in daylight. So we turned around…
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Earth leads by earth but you, O sea, lead by heaven. With what security of light of silver and gold do the stars mark for us the route! One would say that earth is the road of the body; that…
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