On December 21st, 2016 the Coombes family were forced to abandon Dove II, their sailboat and home, in the middle of...
INFREQUENT MUSINGS
Sometime, we write blog posts.
We get a lot of questions about money. How much it cost us to sail for a year, how we...
I didn’t wake up this morning feeling much better than the last. Bad tent sleep. Sore back and arms. Very...
I didn’t sleep on Wednesday night, the eve of our departure. Not after 3am, anyway. I woke up in a cold...
We are selling our boat tomorrow and it feels like my heart is breaking. We put the boat on...
We are sitting here on the dock in Marina Pescadero in Puerto Real, Puerto Rico getting ready to do our...
Full circle. Back to where we started in the Virgin Islands. It’s been almost like a homecoming, only we hardly...
We’re back. St. Martin. It feels like we were just here, even though it has been over three months. It’s...
It started out innocently enough. We found a handline, a few hooks, and a lure on the boat. We then...
The weather for the past week has been surprisingly terrible. It has wreaked havoc on the boat and crew morale,...