Sailvayu blog 4-28-24 We spent Saturday the 20th getting organized and checking resources for the repairs. We decided it would be best to go to a marina to do most of the work. This would be safer as the engine would be out of commission for a while and being […]
Sailvayu blog 4-21-24 We left Key Biscayne early Monday morning the 15th with a somewhat fair wind. Almost as soon as we were out the inlet I smelled burning rubber from the engine compartment. I lifted the steps out of the way to investigate, only to find the engine alternator […]
Sailvayu blog 4-14-24 After a nice long stay in Boot Key Harbor we finally got a semi good weather window to head east and out of the keys. On Weds the 10th we got an early start headed to Rodriguez Key better known to most as Key Largo. Rodriguez Key […]
We left Key West on Monday April 1st. Again the wind was a bit against us but we needed to take advantage of a short weather window to get East. After a long day of pushing as close to the wind as we could we arrived in Boot Key harbor […]
We left Bahia Honda with a strong east wind making for a bumpy run south. We made good time to Key West but it seemed to take forever to get to the mooring field with the wind and current against us. Once at the mooring field we found a free […]
On Saturday the 16th we dropped the mooring to head over to Key Biscayne. Well the bad luck had not left us yet and we immediately got fouled in the mooring after dropping the line. This was a tight mooring field without a lot of room to maneuver. This combined […]
We left North Palm Beach headed to Miami early Tuesday the 12th. The weather prediction was good and we got off to a fairly good start headed down the waterway towards the ocean inlet. We planned a short offshore hop to Ft. Lauderdale or Miami. About the time we got […]
Vayu Blog 03-09-24 We left Stuart on a nice sunny morning hoping to get past Jupiter and the heavy boat traffic early. The weather report was calling for some rain, so we thought that might help with boat traffic as well. There are several bridges in the Jupiter area that […]
We got lucky and sold the Jeep on Saturday so we are finally free of our last shore bound possession, the last anchor to land so to speak. We decided we would get a slip at a Melbourne City Marina Sunday night to make it easier to complete last-minute shopping […]
Vayu Blog 02-23-24 Bugs and switches Our second week of retirement ver 2.0 was mostly working out little bugs on the boat. No, not the creepy crawly type, but the ones that cause things to not work as they should. With cooler weather and no longer plugged into shore power, […]