s/v Monomoy's blog

It seems that each weekend has brought rain lately, so we decided that since Ben can work from anywhere he has an Internet connection and for the fact that Blake and Carol are on summer break, a Tuesday sounded like a good day to hoist the sails. We sailed over to Little Sabine after departing [...]

Sandy Cheeks is our dinghy; a dinghy is like a car and is your transportation for necessary trips to shore, such as taking Pogo for her business, obtaining ice, just to walk the beach, etc. Our previous outboard is a 1971 Evinrude Sportwin 9.5hp 2-stroke. Overall it has done really well for us, but being [...]

It typically gets crowded at the Blue Angel Air Show, so we tend to go over the day before in order to grab a good spot for anchoring. We headed out Thursday morning and sailed for about an hour till the wind died completely causing us to deploy this iron sail. Ty and Kiki followed [...]

After a couple of gorgeous days on the water, we decided to head back to the marina and get the boat cleaned up and ready for the Blue Angel weekend coming up on the 8th-9th. Great Escape crew having breakfast. Carol took a dinghy ride around Little Sabine to get better familiar with our dinghy [...]

What a gorgeous Friday! We started off with a breakfast scramble cooked on our Fagor induction cooktop. Blake loves the stuff. After breakfast, father and son had to discuss navigation tactics; OK, they were looking up how to beat a level on Super Mario Brothers for DS. What a morning! Blake decided to row over [...]

Our friend’s Conrad and Roxanne are in town with their daughter, as they get their s/v Great Escape ready to begin extended cruising in the fall. They decided that after so much work getting the boat prepped, it was time to take a break, get away from the dock and go swimming, so we joined [...]