During a week-long meditation retreat last July, the teachers introduced the idea of “integration” on the second or third day – much earlier than expected. It felt well-timed. Karl and I were already starting to make sense of our nine years aboard Contigo, revisiting big and small moments that only revealed their weight in retrospect. … Continue reading Hey Sailboat

As a child I had a fascination with – and what I told myself was a healthy fear of – sharks. Perhaps years of working on Wall Street prepared me for this day. From Spring 2022. The ride out to the mooring ball could not have been long enough. Anything to delay to inevitable – … Continue reading Big Fish

From Contigo's (unpublished) annals. Future posts will be reflections upon our time aboard, including a few stories. ---One of the most popular questions we received while living aboard Contigo was "What is the scariest moment you have had on the boat?". Fortunately, we had very few mishaps, but one overnight tested our ability to address … Continue reading I’m Okay, Are You Okay?

If you know anything about boating, you’ve probably heard the often-used trope “The two happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day they purchase a boat and the day they sell it.” If you can read between the lines, this past September, we closed on the sale of our dear Contigo. Contigo on … Continue reading The Anchovies Know The Way

Happy Holidays from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico! Our Six Month Apartment Rental in San Antonio, SMA. We hope this note finds you all well and ready to greet what we all hope will be a better 2021. Since our last update in Honduras, at the outbreak of the pandemic, we sailed Contigo back … Continue reading Holiday Anchovy Update!

Early 2020 – Greetings from Roatán!  Today is lock-down day number who-knows on this sleepy, outlying island – one of three "Bay Islands" off the coast of Honduras.  We are safe and find ourselves in as good a port as any to ride out this global storm. Ready for Flight in Guanaja (Another of the … Continue reading Bay Islands “Lock-Down”

First Half 2019 - Greetings from Bonaire... again! It’s been eons since our last update — this being our first of 2019 — and it is not for a lack of adventures to report back on or because we have experienced some seismic shift in how with think about this unorthodox cruising life that we … Continue reading Closing the Loop

November/December 2018 - Greetings from Antigua!  We last posted from the ABC Islands off the coast of Venezuela, so the move to this corner of the Leeward Islands (in the North Eastern Caribbean) has involved ample quantities of upwind legwork on our dear Contigo, who as always, has been a real champ! We mentioned in … Continue reading Virgins & Leewards

September/October 2018 – Greetings from Bonaire!  We sailed over from nearby Curaçao last week, and in no time at all, have dropped back into our June routine of daily swimming and (free)diving.  After one asphalt-melting month spent doing boatwork in Curaçao (save for time spent with our loving parents, who shared their gloriously air-conditioned hotel … Continue reading Silent Retreat, a Super-Typhoon, Edible Grasshoppers

August/September 2018 – Greetings! We are now back aboard Contigo (in Curaçao) after two amazing months spent in Asia, filled to the brim with adventure and (rewarding) challenge. We thought it best to break up our summer land-travel update into two installments, the first of which covers our month spent in Japan. The second will … Continue reading Japan (Asia Part I)