Robert Perry in Sailing magazine

Robert Perry, a renowned yacht designer in his own right, has written a brief review of New Morning in the December issue of Sailing magazine.

New Home page

If you came straight to the blog, check out the new home page. Right up there near the left corner, click Home.

More photos

By popular demand - more photos. First I added a couple new shots that Billy Black took as we were departing Newport. Next are the pictures from our passage from Bermuda to the BVIs. And finally a whole bunch of pictures of New Morning that Billy shot last summer showing various details of the exterior, some really luscious shots of the interior, and a variety of shots while sailing.

New Feature: Locavore

“Locavore” is the Oxford University Press 2007 Word of the Year. "Locavore" was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.”

However it’s spelled, Fay will be writing a new feature on local fresh food as we move from port to port. Checkout the Locavore page to learn more and see what she has to say about Coastal New England.

Home to California

Today we moved New Morning to a mooring adjacent the Bitter End here
in Virgin Gorda. We setup a nice bridle with lots of chafe gear.
Then as a backup we attached the anchor rode for our Fortress (minus
the chain) to the chain below the mooring ball. Hopefully she will
ride safe and sound while we're away.

We're flying back to California tomorrow for four weeks. With better
bandwidth at home I'll post some pictures from the passage from
Bermuda to BVI, as well as unveil a couple of new features on the site.

Stay tuned!

British Virgin Islands

We're just passing Anegada with about 15 miles to Virgin Gorda. We just
played "New Morning" in the cockpit, now it's Iz's version of "Over
the Rainbow". Five days and just short of 900 miles we're ready to
take a break. Not all of the trip was in the brochure, but it was
certainly better than the trip from Newport to Bermuda! Time for
breakfast (omlette!), shower, and maybe a beer after customs/
immigration. We'll post some pictures in a few days.

Welcome to the Tropics, here are your squalls!

But I didn't order squalls. No problem, we have plenty for everyone.
And after the 8 hour course of squalls we have "all you can eat" of
tragically disorganized seas.

The seas straightened out a little bit, but we've been bashing into
waves for the last 24 hours. We have 22 kts true wind about 75
degrees on our port side so we've got about 25-27 kts at 50-60
apparent into 5-8 foot seas. Not pleasant, but we're making good time
with just a double reefed main and a staysail.

Only 150 miles to Anegada, then the seas should smooth out a bit.
With luck we'll be in Virgin Gorda by late Tuesday morning.