New Cruising Adventures - A Need for Speed

This site is the virtual home of our journeys afloat. Until the summer of 2013, we traveled on sailboats. For the 2014 season and onward, we're traveling in the US on a powerboat. We've finished the maiden season on our Grand Banks Heritage Classic 47, which took place entirely on Lake Michigan.

If you have visited this site before, you'll know that we spent the summer seasons 2000-2005 on a Hallberg-Rassy 46 sailboat named Swept Away and 2007-2013 cruising on a Hallberg-Rassy 54 named Second Wind. When it came time to come home to the US, we decided that it was time to move a little faster.

It's a mental more than a physical transition to go from sail to power, some of which has been documented in our 2014 Letters to Home. In the end, adventure and newness is replaced to a large degree by comfort. It's less of an exploration and more of a vacay.

Actually, this photo of a vessel just like ours came from the Grand Banks web site, as did the images in the gallery carousel above (thanks, Grand Banks!).

We've archived the travels of Second Wind, in case you want to go back in time.

You can also see the travels of Swept Away, our Hallberg-Rassy 46.