Single-handed sailing adventures in the Caribbean

This website is not just the typical travel blog. In addition to daily entries of single-handed sailing adventures in the Caribbean, the site also offers a number of other items scattered throughout the pages. Please check out the contents of the menus above to delve into the site’s contents and discover more.

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-handed 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 put this site together in order to share some of those experiences and also so that I could maintain a daily diary with text and images while I’m aboard.

The Future