1 Year anniversary!

Yesterday, when I finally found a good wifi connection, I got a message from a friend back in Israel. She wanted to catch up, and was wondering how was life in Boston... So much has happened during this year, and yet my reply was: " We've left Boston a year ago yesterday, and have been sailing the Caribbean ever since, a bit of a bumpy start (hit a reef, lost our boat) but now everything is great" That's it. our year in a nutshell. it was exactly...

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Made in Del-Max

Life on the boat brings out all the creativity we have. Some things are hard to find, others are out of our budget, and in some cases we run across local creations we just have to recreate. Here are some of the things we have proudly manufactured:The Rain Catcher (RC-001)Water is limited on the boat. We have 2 water tanks that can hold up to 100 gallons (about 400 litters). This water is used for drinking showering cooking an dish washing,...

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Thanksgiving

I am sitting in the quiet saloon of our boat, a stone-throw from the beautiful beach of the island of Bequia (pronounced back-way). Everyone already went to bed, and I should probably do the same, as tomorrow we plan to head out very early, towards the island of St. Lucia. When we first got to Bequia, on the day of Oren's birthday, over four months ago, I had no idea we would ever be back here. And yet here we are again, this time heading north....

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Camp Grenada

 Today is our last day on the island of Grenada.  They say time flies when you're having fun, but still it's hard to believe that it has been almost 3 months since we first got here. Before we came our friends told us about 'Camp Grenada' with endless activities, a strong community and hurricane-safe anchorages, it sounded too good to be true, and the fact that we were robbed the very first night we got here made us very skeptic about...

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Happy Birthday Arbel!!!

October 13th was Arbel's birthday. My sweet baby boy just turned 4 and is definitely not a baby anymore! His birthday was to be celebrated while our boat was 'on the hard', that means the boat is out of the water, in the boat yard while we lived for 2 weeks in an apartment we rented not far from the yard. Being away from the bay and the water for so long, made planning a birthday party somewhat of a complicated task, but yet again, the day was saved...

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Shana Tova

The month of September brings with it a lot of new beginnings, one of which is the Jewish new year. For those who are confused: the Jewish calendar has 12 months (usually), just like the regular calendar, but is going by the moon. That means that a new month begins with a new moon, and the middle of the month will always be accompanied by a full moon. The first month of the Jewish calendar is Tishrey and it has 3 major holidays: - Rosh...

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Dod Yuval!

Dod is hebrew for uncle. there you go. who said you don't learn new things every day... Dod Yuval is Oren's brother, who lives in Haifa, Israel. On one of their phone calls, Oren asked Yuval if there's any chance he'll hop a flight and come visit us down in Grenada. Knowing we're going to be in Grenada for a while we've said that to a few people before, but Yuval was the first one to say, 'why not?'... And so it was! Dod Yuval came down all the way...

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