Flying Fish Life
Exploring the world on a Leopard 44 catamaran
Category: Holidays
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December 2025
Peter’s perilous adventure – and home for the holidays Peter started looking for crew when I started looking at plane tickets back to Denver. He needed at least one other person to help him sail from Bonaire to Santa Marta, Colombia, where we planned to leave the boat while we were in Denver for the…
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December 2024 – post crossing
Winding down….. We spent another week or so in the Rodney Bay marina, first recovering, and then cleaning. Predictably, the boat was a sty, and our energy for dealing with it was at an all-time low. But the best motivation was imminent: Mia and her partner Greg were arriving on the 21st to spend Christmas…
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January 2023
You will be lulled into a false sense of security…. Isn’t it beautiful? It really was! Sunny, warm, glassy water, and the sense of peace and contentment that descends when you should really know better. Oooops. But it was fiiiine. (I can say that now, in April, because February was worse. Anything we encounter from…
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December 2022
New friends – and getting outta town – are good for you. The dreariness of November seeped relentlessly into December, but there were mitigating factors and events that helped us cope. First, as the weeks went by we became more adapted to living on the boat. Small cabins, check. Cold cabins, check. Long walk to…
