Crystal Blues

We came, we saw, we danced - Carnival in Trinidad is one very long and VERY LOUD mobile dance party.  Feathers, lycra, bangles, beads, f...

It has been a busy month here at the Power Boats yard in Trinidad. This is prime cruising season, so the boat yard has rapidly emp...

As a visitor to the West Indies, you can't think of Trinidad without thinking Carnival! Steel (pan) bands, parades, stunningly cost...

Galley Hatch Base Removed, Refurbishing The Mounting Area Rugby, to the uninitiated, is the game where sometimes you throw the ball ba...

Many of my childhood memories are associated with this place - my father bought his first boat (an 18ft Jubilee) out of this shed. My first...

Big Country, Big Sky - Lake Omeo In North East Victoria Back home in Australia, we've been celebrating with family and catchi...

Cracking The Hatch Frame Off The Deck We sailed over 11,000 nautical miles in the past two years, so now we're working through a fa...

Painting The Mast With Crystal Blues out of the water we've launched into our refit list, attacking a range of maintenance and re-f...

Here in Trinidad the locals are proud of their boating support services, though nearby Grenada has stolen a lot of the work in recent yea...

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 ...