Date: Wed, 09May 2012 Place: Antigua Title: Our Skipper Arrives First thing this morning while everyone else was still asleep, I went for a nice long swim to meet the neighbors. I swam to a nice 37 footer and chatted with a Swedish gal as she was doing her yoga. Then over to another boat to visit with a couple from New Jersey on a 44 footer. My task today was to learn the water maker system so I could teach the others. Everyone else went ashore and I en...

Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 Place: Antigua Title: Sunshine Makes Me Happy The rain stopped this morning and the sun came out. We lined the rails with clothes to dry. After a breakfast of canned fruit, John the owner and Suzy went ashore to do some banking and Martyn and I were left to dry out the mainsail and put the sail cover on. After that, I grabbed a notebook and started making notes on where things were. I also started making a list of thinks that need...

Last night was typically miserable for spending the night in an airport. Seems to me that there is entrepreneurial opportunity here. They rent these carts for $5, why not rent a cot? Anyway, I bought an inflatable pillow which turned out to be a good investment. The flight to Antigua made up for the bad night. I lucked out and had a full row of seats to myself. As we descended for a landing, the water around the island was absolutely gorgeous with every hue...

Upon arrival at JFK I had to leave security and make my way to the baggage claim. At least my sea-bag made it this far. I then had to go and re-check it to Antiqua. This never happened before. They said it had something to do with being more than 12 hours between flights. Didn't make any sense to me. But there are a lot of things about air travel today that doesn't make sense. I was lucky to get it checked. The lady said, "I'm not supposed to do this." ...

Gotta love Chigago where there's about a 30% chance your flight will be delayed by weather. I was suppose to leave at 12:55pm and now it's 2:30pm. But since I'm spending the night at JFK, a little delay here is not an issue.