Single-handed sailing adventures in the Caribbean

Single-handed sailing adventures in the Caribbean
Anchored in Antigua

This website is not just the typical  travel blog. In addition to daily entries of single-handed sailing adventures in the Caribbean, the site also offers a number of other items scattered throughout the pages. Please check out the contents of the menus above to delve into the site’s contents and discover more.

The Boat

Zanshin is a Jeanneau 57 and is my 4th sailboat in the Caribbean. Each successive boat has gotten just a bit bigger and slightly newer than its predecessor.  My first boat, Solitaire, was an ex-charter Jeanneau 43DS. The current Zanshin was purchased brand new so that I could finally have a boat where each ding, dent, scratch or maltreated item aboard could not be blamed on a previous owner. She was Jeanneau’s flagship boat at the Annapolis boat show when I picked her up, in the meantime there’s an even larger model. I immediately sailed her south to warmer climes, where she has, for the most part, remained since. I’ve travelled the island chain from the USVI down to Grenada.

To date I’ve single-handed Zanshin for over 10,000 nautical miles at sea. I’ve had a lot of adventures aboard – most of them were good, some were bad, some were very bad. I put this site together in order to share some of those experiences and also so that I could maintain a daily diary with text and images while I’m aboard.

The Future
Sailing offshore
Sailing offshore

My plan is to explore as much of the Caribbean as I can before taking the big step of transiting the Panama Canal and beginning my circumnavigation. The trade-winds along the “barefoot route” (where you stay in warm weather and don’t need shoes) go from east to west.

Going downwind is far more comfortable than trying to bash against the wind, so once in the Pacific I’ll just keep on heading west through Australia, Asia and Europe until I get back to where I started. What I’ll do after that is still too far in the future to plan.

Immer eine Handbreit Wasser unterm Kiel

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May you always have a handsbreadth water under your keel