This is a blog of my maritime wanderings. No matter where I am in the world or how many times I have had the exact same experience, there is still that small swell of excitement when I step on a boat or walk a dock. Whether it’s strolling the maritime museum in Liverpool or bare-boating through the Society Islands or cruising on an expedition ship to Cape Horn or sailing the islands of Penobscot Bay or standing watch on a passage to Bermuda or helming as we pick up a mooring at Jost Van Dyke or crewing on a Clipper Ship as it races along the Antigua Classic or zipping across Long Island Sound for lunch at Louis – if I am on the water, I am a happy camper.
As you will discover, some of our favorite landside activities revolve around food – testing eateries of all stripes, finding the best provisioning at every landfall and throwing out a line to see what Neptune has to offer.
My husband, Richard, and I - along with our two now grown children, Jason and Amanda, and seadog Molly - have cruised the U.S. East Coast for a couple decades – Maine to Long Island Sound to the Chesapeake to Florida to Bermuda - and have managed, on small expedition ships, charter yachts and our own vessels, to get to know dozens of other cruising grounds around the world. But even when we are traveling by car or plane, we always end up on or near the water. Some times we are in the lap of luxury and other times on the edge of serious adventure, but mostly we are just outside our comfort zone, and, with eyes wide open, always learning.
FYI: I am also one of the primary writers and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Cruising Club's Guides to Marinas - and as such have visited over 2000 marinas, webmaster of www.AtlanticCruisingclub.com, author of the www.HealthyBoat.com blog, and free-lance writer for several boating publications. We own a Leopard 40 catamaran based in Tortola, BVI and a Glacier Bay power cat based in Rye, NY.
