Travel with JoY

Yata took his turn at the helm our first full day out and it was a windy grey day with big swells and a boat riding like a herd of stallions over the sea.  Each day of sailing around these islands is unique, from Yata's stormy ride to one day of near calm that required us to motor. Borko,  the consummate sailor never took the lazy route of motoring when sailing was an option.  We would determine our course in the morning and depending on the direction and power of the wind we would sail a direct route downwind or tack back and forth with a side or headwind. The day I sailed we had a side wind and I kept trying to get speed but at the expense of the direction we were headed. At one point Borko explained Velocity Made Good. If you sacrifice too much direction for speed you could actually have a negative VMG because you're not actually getting to your desired destination.  Sailing strikes me as something that is ruled by the laws of physics but at the same time is an ar...

I haven't updated my paintings in a while.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, they suffer from a bit too much inspiration in that the subjects, and approaches are all over the place, from palette knife to decorative borders; from a colorful tropical palette to a subdued tone on tone grey piece. Jazz in 4/4 Time, 36" x 36" acrylic, with collaged fabric from Artfabrik (Grenada) Reef Impressions, 12" x 12" acrylic Fall Edge, 6pm, 36" x 36" acrylic Rocks & Waves V, 12 x 12 acrylic Flotsam, 24" x 36" acrylic North of Gouyave, 12" x 24" acrylic Grenada Cottage, 12 x 12 acrylic Homage to Breadfruit, 12 x 12 acrylic Sailin II, 12 x 24 acrylic, a tone-on-tone palette knife piece.

Sailin’ past Kick ‘Em Jenny The swells were as big as a small house, with winds gusting to 28 knots….. I had downloaded Windfinder to my phone and it turned out to be perfectly accurate in its prediction of 25 knot winds (with gusts to 28) for Tues and Wed of our trip.  Yata and I being neophytes to this sort of sailing; we had only sailed on Lake Pepin and the Great Lakes a time or two; didn’t quite know what to expect. We sailed Sunday to Sunday, Jan 24 to 31st on the Chinook, a 42” mono-hull Bavaria yacht with three berths with Kay Hamilton, Dwight Jelle, Jeri and Dave Erickson.  Dwight was the captain and he and Kay have had a lot of experience including racing as well as weeklong trips through the British Virgin Islands and the Grenadines.  Dave and Jeri purchased Kay and Dwight’s Tartan sailboat and have it at the Pepin Marina. So they too have years of sailing experience.   We departed Sunday about 2pm after a couple hours of loading and instruc...

An excellent recipe by 1st mate Kay. Or should I say galley wench! Boat Babe Curry by Kay 2 onions chopped 3 fingers ginger, minced 3 cloves garlic minced 1 red bell pepper chopped Sauté above in 2 T coconut oil.  Add 1 c chicken broth 1/2 can coconut milk 2 T tamarind sauce 1/4 c peanut butter Salt Pepper 1 T turmeric or more 1 T cinnamon  1/4 c coconut cream 1 T fresh thyme Simmer