Delphinus departs - Sunday 28 Dec 2008

At 9.20 am, Delphinus departed from Lauderdale by the Sea - on board, Phillip (Captain of course), 1st Mate Lloyd (Phillip's friend and a sailor since he was 7 years old), and Bobby, the deckhand. They estimate 8 - 12 days, depending on the wind and seas, and are heading out about 350 miles to longitude 65 (also known as highway 65) where they will turn south and head straight to St. Thomas and the Virgin Islands. May the sun be on their faces and the wind on their backs. Bon voyage!

Dry dock - Dec 18th

Delphinus was in dry dock having her hull and bottom painted and waxed and buffed and polished, and she looks lovely.

She looks so small - she's not really.

About Delphinus

This will be the online "diary" of our sailing trip - we leave in January for the Caribbean for six months, and then on to the Chesapeake Bay in June when hurricane season arrives - there we hope to spend five months.

Our sailboat is Delphinus (Latin for dolphin and also a constellation in the northern sky). She is a 44 foot Endurance, a bluewater boat meant for long distance and deepwater sailing. She will be our new home for the next 11 or so months.

My husband, Phillip, sailed her over from the UK to the US (before we met), up and down the east coast of the US and down to Venezuela. We were also married on Delphinus in May 2007. He always said he wanted us to take some time off and go sailing - but I never quite believed it would happen. 2008 was a bad year, and it made me really want to take a break from land-life, spend more time with Phillip, and have some FUN - hopefully our family and friends will come over and visit us and have some fun too.