With the safe passing of T.S. Rafael to the east of us, Kurt’s brother Peter and his crew on their chartered motor yacht were finally allowed to leave their charter base marina and with only one day left on their charter took a trip to Deadman Bay on Peter Island. After a morning spent aboard…

With no tropical storms forecast between the BVI and Aruba, we decided to make a run for the lower latitudes and get out of the Hurricane zone. A ‘huka’ dive on Interlude’s bottom reveiled no surprises, only a few dings and wraps from Maine’s maddening lobster pots. The ‘captain’ fired up our new dive…

Motoring a few hours last night got us through some squally shifty rainy areas but on the whole it has been a pleasant sail in 10 to 20 knot East winds with slight to now moderate seas. We are under full main and Genoa on a beam reach doing 8 to 10 knots. No…

With another squally night forecast and no reason to hurry into port for a night arrival, we shortened sail to stays’l and reefed main. With this combination we are still making a respectable 7 to 8 kn and can easily weather 25 to 35 kn squalls. The downpours have been spectacular though, keeping Interlude…

We took our time getting into port, slowing down to arrive at dawn. On final approach we turned on our new LED spreader and cockpit lights to gybe the reefed mainsail and were soon spotted and hailed by the Aruba Coast Guard. They came along side and asked us to talk on the radio…