Single-handed Caribbean sailing adventures

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The Boat

Zanshin is a Jeanneau 57 and is my 4^th sailboat in the Caribbean. Each successive boat has gotten just a bit bigger and slightly newer than its predecessor. My first boat, Solitaire, was an ex-charter Jeanneau 43DS. The current Zanshin was purchased factory new so that I could finally have a boat where each ding, dent, scratch, or maltreated item aboard could not be blamed on a previous owner. She was Jeanneau’s flagship boat at the Annapolis boat show when I picked her up, but in the meantime, there’s an even larger model. I immediately sailed her south from Maryland to warmer climes, where she has, for the most part, remained since. I’ve now travelled up and down the island chain from the USVI down to Grenada many times.

To date, I’ve single-handedly sailed Zanshin for over 15,000 nautical miles at sea. I’ve had a lot of adventures aboard – most of them were good, some were bad, some were very bad. I created this site to share some of those experiences and also to maintain a daily diary with text and images while I’m aboard.

The Future

I plan to explore as much of the Caribbean as I can before taking the big step of transiting the Panama Canal and beginning my circumnavigation. The trade winds along the “barefoot route” (where you stay in warm weather and don’t need shoes) go from east to west.

Going downwind is far more comfortable than trying to bash against the wind, so once in the Pacific, I’ll keep on heading west through Australia, Asia, and Europe until I get back to where I started. What I’ll do after that is still too far in the future to plan.