We sailed up to Barbuda from Antigua and spent a couple of days exploring the island. It was very different from the other islands in the Caribbean: very few people, really flat like the Bahamas, lots of beautiful things to see.

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Before we start Sailing Samantas, our diy sailboat building project which happens to be a Colombia 10.7 down to the new marina, we needed to move the cradle to it's new home at Chipman Point. As part of this diy sailboat build I'm considering turning my cradle into a sailboat trailer. this will be a diy cradle building side project. https://www.patreon.com/sailing_samantas https://paypal.me/SailingSamantas?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

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It was two years ago in May. I was teaching an instructional passage, and we were in Bermuda waiting for weather to allow us to continue north to Newport. Of course, we knew that the America’s Cup was happening. Still, the absolute mind-boggling spectacle of seeing those boats…..doing that! As we entered the outer bay near Hamilton, there, right in front of us, was Oracle, sitting in the water, getting coached up by her chase boats. Now not more than 40-50 yards away, the crew trimmed in the wing sail. The boat lurched a little, started moving….then bam! Like the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek movies, it popped up, onto its’ foils, and was off at nearly 40 knots. Warp speed Scotty!

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