My Most Recent ICW Experience More and more lessons to be learned – dinghy towing can be hazardous A passage from passage from Marathon FL to Fort Pierce December 2009 I first became aware of Saffanah surfing E Bay and I first saw Saffanah at anchor in Boot Harbor in Marathon FL. She is a 32 Downeast cutter built in the seventies in Costa Mesa CA, and definitely showed her age – weathered and crazed hull, sad canvas, lousy sails, no electron… […]
Introduction First, it helps to get the names straight. Down East Yachts, Incorporated was the name of the company which was the builder. Downeaster is the name most commonly used and published by the builer for all the models. But even the builder wasn’t always consistent and you will often see the the boat refered to as a “Downeast” or “Down East” or “DownEast”, and in the following years this incons… […]
The day before we left Richards Bay to begin our voyage around the bottom of Africa we had a “braai” for Drake’s 10th birthday. The Zululand Yacht Club has huge lawns that are dotted with Bar-B-Que “braai” cook stations. Along with a resident Hippo who will occassionaly surface in the middle of the harbor. Inviting all the cruising yachts from both Tuza Gazi Marina and Zululand, along with the local friend… […]
Mitch has been kind enough to let us republish a recent series of articles he wrote that are at the Observer News. I have included a link back to the original article on the Observer News website at the bottom of the article here. The Last Leg CAMBRIDGE, MD – The temperature outside was falling into the 30s. A brisk wind from the Northwest gripped the rigging, causing my sailboat to shudder. The gust-induced rocking seeped into the dream… […]
We purchased Saffanah with two purposes in mind. We needed a blue water sailboat small enough to be single handed while sailing the Atlantic circle, and secondly we wanted a beamy live-aboard, shallow draft boat that could motor the 1800 miles of European canals and rivers we wanted to explore. Further, we needed to stick to a tight budget that limited options, avoided purchasing stuff from a catalogue, and required us to do most of the work “… […]
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