Hello all,
I just found this site yesterday. Over the past twenty-five years I have sailed on the Chesapeake, made probably 15 trips to the Virgins and
Bermuda, as well as the
Bahamas,
crewing for others. Before rthat it was small
power boats. Five years ago I
single handed from the Bay to West Palm Beach and crossed over to West End in the
Bahamas. The trip was delayed when I broke my hand in a bike
accident and could not get the cast wet.
After I returned I traveled south to Chubb Key in the Berry's. Originally I had planned on going to the
Exumas but I had promised my wife a date certain returrn date. I turned around and came back.
After pricing
rerigging the
boat for
single handing I decided it was too expensive and
sold the West Indies 36. That was a mistake. After two years without a
boat I started looking again. Late last fall I bought 1993
Gemini on Lake Champlain. It is unusual in that it has two 27 HP
Yanmar engines for auxiliaries.
I could not get out of Lake Champain until 7 May this year. One of my sons went with me and we brought the boat back to the Bay. Good thing we had the larger engines, the
wind was in our teeth for the entire trip except the two days of dead calm..
As usual with a
new boat I am struggling with fixing all the problems the
surveyor missed. Hope to get some cruising in this fall.
Jim Owens
aka Jamiedhu
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