Making our ocean-going sailing vessel “baby proof” is something new for us, and we look at our living space with new questions these days:  Can that hollow be converted into […]

Leander has been hauled out of the water, and sits in a yard in Fethiye, in the south of Turkey. She will rest there for the winter, giving us time […]

We went home to the U.S. for several weeks. The boat is in Turkey, and has been since August. We’ve drafted a couple of catch-up blogs, taking us from our […]

Endeavor Bay, Tawila Island, Egypt Just as we have found some Egyptians to be genuine and warm while others are less so, some parts of Egypt -the ancient parts mostly […]

Red Sea, Egypt We’re in Endeavor Bay, on Tawila Island, Egypt, in the northern part of the Red Sea, just short of the Gulf of Suez; 160 miles from the […]

27 41 N, 33 48 E At the Entrance to the Gulf of Suez It’s 6:00 a.m., and the sun is just coming up over cloud-shrouded mountains on the Sinai […]

In the Red Sea, 30 miles south of Port Ghalib, Egypt 12:00 p.m. (09:00 UTC) Saturday, 12 June 2010 25 16 N, 34 57 E The dolphins did come to […]

24 10 N, 35 40 E Now that’s more like it. We had a comfortable overnight motor sail, 70 miles north from Dangerous Reef to Dolphin Reef. The winds were […]