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Ahoy St Thomas! A New Video

Here is a new video for your viewing pleasure. This one chronicles our time in St John, USVI, which is exactly as beautiful as everyone says, but of course we filled it with chaotic moments and frequent occasions of inappropriate drain-like laughter. I can’t help that I have a

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Lucky: Or How to Board the Wrong Boat in the BVI With Confidence

I used to collect shells until we accidentally recreated a Caribbean coastline inside the boat. Now I collect stories. This one involves identical catamarans, borrowed dinghies, a stolen kayak, and a man named Lucky who boarded the wrong boat and met a woman with a fishing spear.

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New Video: St Thomas, BVI

Boat life update introducing our latest video, featuring my very real editor (not in a yurt), and our current position between St Martin and video-time St Thomas. Plus a preview of the BVI coming soon!

New Video: Vieques and Culebra

For your viewing pleasure, and also as a hedge against my future Alzheimer’s, here is another video offering. The big news is that I have found a video editor. This means the videos should now arrive thick and fast instead of appearing every few weeks - like our mail.

New Video: Mona Passage and USS Iwo Jima

Ahhhh. Retirement! In theory, it involves serenity. In practice, it involves me staring at the azure horizon wondering how I could improve it. Perhaps a feature wall? A slightly punchier shade of blue? It’s not you, Caribbean-tropical-paradise, it’s clearly me. One minute I’m admiring the ocean, the

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From Monkey to Moonfleet: A Love Story in Three Boats

A Valentine’s boating love story about second chances, online dating, and why we traded sailboats for full-time liveaboard trawler life.

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How to Panic-Clean a Boat When a Rock Legend Is Coming for Cocktails

A forgotten Cornish hen, a frantic deep clean, and an unexpected rock legend converge on our boat at Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands

New YouTube video: “Exploring Samana” aka “Getting Lost in a Jungle”

In this week’s episode of “Where are we now, where have we been, and who is actually making these decisions?” (Answers: BVI. Too much to remember. The dog). I present our latest YouTube offering. It clocks in at a bold fifteen minutes of edited derangement, which sounds like tough

Are We Becoming Island Snobs?

A few days ago, we went into Spanish Town in Virgin Gorda to apply for an extension to stay in the British Virgin Islands for another sixty days. We both dressed smart-ish…as smart as our current shipwreck hairstyles and “don’t own an iron” looks could get us anyway.

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Wing Foiling, Megayachts & Giant Spuds: A New Year in the British Virgin Islands

A New Year in the British Virgin Islands among megayachts, wing foiling experiments, floating football screens, and the quiet rebellion of being the only trawler.

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Christmas at Sea in the Caribbean-Drones, Family and Island Life

A funny, honest take on Christmas at sea in the Caribbean-drones, family, private islands, and learning to feel at home while unanchored.

A new YT video for you!

Behind the Walls of Puerto Plata or: Free Breakfast Will Get Us Every Time Hello wonderful crew members. I'm happy to deliver our latest Youtube video for your viewing pleasure. I would love to hear your takeaways from these videos...Love 'em? Hate 'em? Want more

Our First Week in St. Thomas: Flags, Friends, and Fish

Our first official week in St. Thomas began properly, with Kirsten hoisting the USVI courtesy flag. Maritime protocol was followed to the letter. Aesthetic protocol was… generously exceeded. Let’s just say the flag wasn’t the only thing drawing attention, and Moonfleet immediately felt welcomed into the territory. One

Moonfleet Stats and the future…

Hi Friends! Having recently arrived in USVI’s, a long standing goal of mine, I thought I’d share some interesting (probably only to me) stats on our journey thus far: From 1 Nov - 12 Dec 2025 4 countries: Bahamas, DR, PR, USVI 42 days since journey began 19

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Glowings, Gales & Glazed Ribs: More Chaotic Cruising - Vieques & Culebra

Sailing from Vieques to Culebra served up wild horses, bioluminescence, gusty weather, engine smoke solutions, and the best mahi tacos in the Caribbean (possibly). A humorous cruising tale of glow-in-the-dark seas, island detours, and life aboard M/Y Moonfleet.

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Puerto Rico: In the Company of Warships and Stained Pajamas

A chaotic stretch of cruising from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico: night passages, Coast Guard boardings, stray dogs, a surprise Navy warship, an engine-room emergency, and a Dido-fuelled meltdown—ending with Vieques, wild horses, and much-needed bioluminescent calm.

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Welcome to Bahía Marina: The Sci-Fi Resort Where Time Stands Still and the Water… Moves You

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Thanksgiving in Samana: A Meditation on Gratitude, Smugness, and mild Caribbean Terror

Today is Thanksgiving and I should be writing something heart-warming and emotional about gratitude. And I am grateful, truly. But if I’m honest, I also feel… smug. Embarrassed and smug — a combination I didn’t even know was possible outside of yoga classes, comparing sour dough recipes, and walking

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Free Breakfast Bandits in Puerto Plata: Ocean World and a questionable Lifestyle Opportunity

A 27-hour crossing, stray dogs, a dubious “Lifestyle” resort tour, and marina Wi-Fi powered by hamsters. Sailing from Puerto Plata toward Samana—with rum declined but chaos accepted.

The Crossing to the Dominican Republic

Well we made it to the Southern most Island of the Bahamas, Great Inagua, where we anchored just outside the government basin in the early evening and a dingy ride to the dock for a Gypsy walk and to explore a bit. Didn’t take long for word to get

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Black Seagulls, Witch Moths and going Feral before Sunrise

Leaving the Exumas

Good morning crew! We just weighed anchor off a small island on the SW side of Great Exuma Island, which had a fabulous little beach with the softest, whitest sands. We arrived there yesterday, 13 Nov about an hour before sunset, which is preferred to showing up at an unknown

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The Things We Do for a Flush

Life aboard a trawler tests one’s appreciation for modern plumbing. In this witty travel essay, Kirsten Kopp muses on lost luxuries, high-seas improvisation, and her husband’s uncanny gift for fixing the unfixable-even when it stinks.

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The Woman Who Uploaded Too Much