The Long Island Sound is a nice sheltered stretch of water and a real sailing mecca. It can have a lot of currents (ebb and flow), and in case of strong winds a good trip planning is necessary. We only have very little...

Well, and then suddenly we're on our own keel in New York. What a fantastic experience!!! Before we left, this was always a big milestone, but still so far away. And now we're really here, with the...

For a week we sleep at Dan and Kathy's house and are cordially integrated in their family life. A real experience, also for Mom and Helen and the girls. The house is big enough so we all have a...

The nice weather continues. A little less warm than last weekend, but still with a warm sun which makes it lovely to stay outside. We're all set, there are six of us on the boat, and...

The Chesapeake Bay is a very large bay on the east coast of America, with the city of Norfolk in the south and the cities of Washington DC and Baltimore in the north....

Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Norfolk, a real "US-navy" town at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay ... a large bay with beautiful nature where we spend the next two weeks with Mira's mother and aunt Helen (sister of Mira's...

Florida is a state of extremes in that respect. The whole of America is. There are huge shopping malls everywhere with mega-large parking lots and lots of shops, open on Sundays and sometimes even open 24 hours a day like...

Yes, we're in America!!! All on our own keel and we're proud of it. What a country! We've both been here before, so it's not unknown. But as part of this trip compared to...

So, this is the story of our 2nd (and last) week in the Bahamas. Most Americans and Canadians we meet here spend months there, but most of them don't get any further than this. They find...

The nice thing about this sailing trip is that after a few hours of sailing (in this case 26 hours) you are suddenly in a whole other world again. We have left Cuba behind us and are surprised by the Bahamas. What...