Buying a Boat
Our Biggest Priorities when Shopping for a Cruising Catamaran
Bigger or Faster? Choosing the Size of Your Cruising Catamaran
Fountaine Pajot
The Helia Versus the Helia Evolution
20,000nm Helia Review – An Update
6,000nm Helia Review
Route Planning
Cruising the Indian Ocean: Planning for 2019
Planning a Circumnavigation
Cruising the South Pacific
Highlights from 3 Months in the Caribbean
Sailing Tips & Tricks
Important Knots for Cruisers to Know by Heart
Best Sail Configurations for Downwind Sailing on a Cruising Catamaran
Sail Trim for a Cruising Catamaran
Sailing Stories
Sailing from Australia to Indonesia: Horn to Debut
Our second Pacific crossing
4,146 NM Sailing Across the Atlantic
We made it! On January 20th we tied up to the dock in Miami, Florida after 26 days at sea from Las Palmas, Canaries. We feel quite accomplished having sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Stats Now that our feet have been on solid ground for a few days, it’s time to…
We have now completed almost 1,500nm on Starry Horizons and are happy to report that all the issues we’ve been having are relatively minor. So for those of you hoping for stories about having to climb the mast in 30 knots of wind to retrieve a halyard, we can’t share those with you (yet, we still…
Post by Out Chasing Stars. We have arrived in A Coruña safe and sound, and are very pleased with our first crossing. It took us about 60 hours, and we have learned quite a lot. We had some plans and expectations, and really everything went out the window. Why is This Route So Popular? This…
On Saturday, November 8th, we started Starry Horizons up and headed over to the fuel dock in Minimes. The fuel dock is open 24/7, as it is a credit card machine, so no assistance is required. There is a maximum of 300 euros, so we put as much gas in as we could, knowing that…
After spending a good portion of the day at the Fountaine Pajot factory yesterday, we got up early on October 29th excited to launch our new boat! We arrived at the factory at 8 am. It was a bit like prom; we had four iPhones, one iPad, a camera, and a GoPro all snapping away….
382 Days… That’s how long it took from the signing of our contract in Annapolis until today, when we saw Starry Horizons, our Helia 44, for the first time while taking a Fountaine Pajot factory tour. “Patience” has been our word of the moment and we’re getting lots of practice at it. Constructions Pictures A week and…
I kid you not, one of the to do items on my list was to “get rid of stuff”. This was an ongoing project, started over a year before we moved aboard our boat. I never felt that we were packrats; our residences have been on the small side, with about 1,300 square feet. We…
When David and I met, David had been out sailing once as a child. Now, we’ve completed a world circumnavigation together and we are both experienced and skilled skippers. In the years between meeting (2008) and taking off sailing (2014), we were lucky to have a lot of opportunities to learn to sail. We recognize…