Crystal Blues

Lifted out of the water and propped up on the hard stand here in Trinidad, we find ourselves for the first time having to deal with 110 v...

Photo courtesy Peter Laine Early This Morning, Speckled Progress Is Measured Crystal Blues is looking like a...

Looks Good On The Outside, But Completely Rusted Out On The Inside Our first maintenance job in Trinidad was to investigate why our Nor...

While the water at the docks in Chagauramas can be very polluted, we can still see turtles swimming in the lagoon just a few hundred mete...

Afternoon Thunder Storms Welcome Us To Trinidad After two weeks in Grenada we moved onward to Trinidad, just 80 nautical miles away, in...

Recently I came across a cruising sailboat with a beautiful new compass installation - problem was, it just didn't work. The compass ...

Carnage On Deck Our night passage from Tobago to Grenada was memorable for setting a new record - that is, a record number of Flying Fi...

Loading The Important Things In Grenada - Italian Wine By The Box Load Two weeks ago we sailed overnight from Tobago to Grenada, an ove...

My experience being hassled by 12 desperate Remora fish in the ocean off the coast of Suriname is apparently not so rare . Our friends on...

Ceilydh anchored in Prickly Bay, Grenada Crystal Blues and Ceilydh sailed away from Malaysia bound for Sri Lanka within a few days of e...

Our last sunset swim at Pirates Beach Tobago, with Diane and Evan from Ceilydh                                    Cruisers are well pra...

Hose clamps seem to be such simple things - yet choosing the wrong types can sure mess up an otherwise perfect sailing day. As we ...

This is our first time in the North Atlantic with Crystal Blues, and also our first time to be watching for hurricanes. Here in Tobago ...

We arrived in beautiful Charlotteville just 12 days ago - and it's everything we wanted in a Carribbean anchorage. Very friendly peop...

Ley In The Galley As We Beat To The North West At Sunset After three weeks in Suriname we set sail again for our first Caribbean land...