Tracking

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• Video: Golden Hour 2024

  The Mac Photos app made this video for me, featuring sunsets last year. While I'm not nuts about their choice of music, I am a fan of the computer maing a video where I had to do fuck-all production. Update: I had to replace the music because there was a copyright block on the one that my Mac chose. WTF, apple!

  

• Dominican Republic and Bahamas

  Once it was clear that we weren't going to be across the ocean as soon as we had hoped, the Domonican Republic is a country that we tentatively decided to skip. But then San Juan wasn't as conducive to supply runs or laundry as we had anticipated, and we found a resort with a marina who also has a good off season rate, so we decded to drop in for a bit.

  

• Video: Night Watch - Final Chapter + Mobile Ship Channel at Night

  The worst part of any trip we take is passing Mobile at night. And somehow, we alsways end up passing at night.

  

• USVIs and Puerto Rico

  After Crystal and her delightful adult daughters left us, we sailed to Saint John to meet up with some of our Baton Rouge friends. We spent a few days between floating behind Velvet Elvis, hanging out at the beautiful pool at their rental house, and exploring the bay and the island.

  

• BVIs

  The British Virgin Islands are by far the most popular cruising grounds in the Caribbean. I went in expecting to have a lot of fun, but to be underwhelmed by the "touristy" destination. But it turns out that there's a reason for its popularity. There's something that's a lot of fun on every island, and they're all just a 2 or 3 hour sail away.

  

• Video: BVI Video Highlight Reel

  Unedited clips from my library pieced together. Partying on board, dancing at Foxy's, and jumping from Willie T's. And about 10 seconds of a late-week snorkel. Annika did finally work up the nerve to jump, but I couldn't find the video evidence.