A Month in Eleuthera
Quick Real Time Update – June 18 2025 We’ve been back on the US east coast for a week-and-a-half, since June 8th. As I write this, we are sailing from St. Augustine, FL to Little River, SC with hopes to be in VA sometime next week where we can leave Luthien. We’ll be back in…
So Long Abacos!
Quick Real Time Update / TLDR; It’s been over TWO MONTHS since last blog. Wild. Where did the time go?? Well, we’ve been hosting visitors – good friends Scott and Denice Toney came to visit, followed by my parents, Terry and Patricia, followed by son Liam and daughter-in-law Maggie. We left Abacos nearly a month…
Blog Takeover from a Happy Guest
By Scott Toney So, this week I think you loyal readers need a bit of a shakeup. Instead of hearing about the bold adventures of sailing, the pain and heartache of boat jobs, or the fun of sitting on a huge beach alone, I thought I would share my version of what happens on a…
First Month in The Bahamas
The Sea of Abaco is a Bunny Hill for Cruisers Cruisers I thought I’d start by explaining what a “cruiser” is, since I use the word several times in this blog. A cruiser in this context is someone who owns a boat and lives on it for a significant portion of the year. Several months…
Stretching Our Sea Legs
We’re Finally Here! Well, 5 months after first putting Luthien in the water, 3 years since our first sailing lesson, and 6 years since we watched our first sailing video on youtube, we have finally arrived. And I mean that in the grand scope of the word. As I write this (Monday, March 3rd), we’re…
Luthien is (Almost!) Ready to Go Off-Grid
Quick Real Time Update As I write this, we’re sitting at anchor in Lake Worth, at the northern end of West Palm Beach, FL. We arrived here Fri am (02/14) after 3 days off the dock. We actually did three days at sea / two nights in a row of overnight sailing motoring, just Terri…
The Bridges of Jacksonville
We had to go under or through 8 different bridges to get up this river! (I’m a little behind real-time here… these events took place on Jan 14 – 15.) I am learning so much about east coast geography on this trip! Turns out, Jacksonville is not actually on the coast. Possibly I’m the only…
January 2025 Update
Welp, it’s been a minute since last blog so I thought I’d write a quick update on what we’ve been up to since last blog. It has been a busy couple of months! In roughly chronological order: – We holed up at tiny (but cheap!) marina in St. Marys GA for Dec and the first…
Now This Is More Like It
We’ve arrived! We cast off from Hayes, VA on Oct 29 and have spent the last 33 days hopping down the coast from one town / anchorage to another. Yesterday we finally arrived here in St. Mary’s GA, which was our planned (interim) destination. We plan to spend the next two weeks here ourselves, and…
Daylight, Wind, and Equipment
…Are colluding to keep us from raising the sails (Written morning of Tue Nov 19) We are continuing to work our way south one daylight hop at a time. Last evening we arrived in Charleston SC and are holed up at Safe Harbor – Charleston City marina for the week. We did three, one-day hops…
Ocean Sailing is Wild Yo
…and everything is sore! This weekend was, with no exaggeration, one of the most intense things I have done in my life. Terri is still working remote through Jan 3. So we have hatched a plan whereby we will sail south on weekends and holidays, then find a marina to hole up at during the…
First Overnight Passage
This week, we completed our first overnight passage! Our previous most recent plan, was to just do a shakedown cruise on Tue Oct 29, see what was working and not working on the boat, then head back to the marina for the night. After that, on Wed, we were going to head out to the…