CruiseNews
Sovereign sails off Block Island
Welcome to the voyages of Jim and Cathy Mueller. We lived aboard our
Pratique 35 sailboat Sovereign between 1988 and 2001.
The cruise chronicled here began in 1999. To
get a better idea of the geography involved, here is a
map of our trip.
Below is an archive of e-mails and photos of this trip.
Take a virtual tour of Sovereign below decks.
Too
much CruiseNews and too little time? If you can't make up your mind which
CruiseNews to read, may we suggest reading a few of our favorite tales like
The $92 O-ring. See what it's like to sail
offshore in A Portrait of a Passage. Or read
about our favorite destinations:
Maine, Dominica, Venezuela, and
Coastal Georgia.
Date | Port of Call | # | Subject |
1999-05-15 | Brunswick, Georgia | Still in Brunswick | |
1999-05-22 | Brunswick, Georgia | Today's the Day! | |
1999-05-25 | Thunderbolt (Savannah), Georgia | 1 | Hurry Up and Wait |
1999-06-03 | Beaufort, NC | 2 | CruiseNews #2 |
1999-06-09 | Elizabeth City, NC | 3 | North Carolina |
1999-06-14 | Hampton, VA | 4 | The (not so) Dismal Swamp |
1999-06-28 | Block Island, RI | 5 | Block Island |
1999-07-10 | Newport, RI | 6 | Newport, Newport, Newport |
1999-07-16 | Newport, RI | 7 | The $92 O-ring and Other Unbelievable Tales |
1999-07-25 | Southwest Harbor, ME | 8 | Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-jig |
1999-08-08 | Southwest Harbor, ME | 9 | A Vacation from Retirement |
1999-09-13 | Southwest Harbor, ME | 10 | A Cruise Through History |
1999-09-06 | Southwest Harbor, ME | 11 | Fish Out of Water |
1999-10-05 | Southwest Harbor, ME | 12 | You Get What You Pay For |
1999-10-23 | Newport, RI | 13 | Sailing Through Molasses |
1999-11-4 | Annapolis, MD | 14 | Passage from Newport |
1999-11-13 | Hampton, VA | 15 | Weather or Not to Go? |
1999-11-17 | Hampton, VA | The Window Opens | |
1999-11-30 | St. George, Bermuda | 16 | To Bermuda |
1999-12-07 | St. George, Bermuda | 17 | Bermuda Ashore |
1999-12-16 | Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 18 | Passage to the BVI |
2000-01-05 | Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 19 | Island Time and Holidays in the BVI |
2000-02-18 | Simpson Bay Lagoon, Sint Maartin, Netherlands Antilles | 20 | Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude |
2000-03-07 | English Harbour, Antigua | 21 | Cruising's Not What You Think It Is...Until Now |
2000-03-25 | Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies | 22 | Guadeloupe |
2000-03-30 | Roseau, Dominica | 23 | Dominican Champagne |
2000-05-06 | Rodney Bay, St. Lucia | 24 | Martinique and St. Lucia |
2000-05-31 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 25 | St. Lucia and Bequia |
2000-06-21 | Hog Island, Grenada | 26 | Same Stuff, Different Island |
2000-07-03 | Hog Island, Grenada | 27 | Spice Island |
2000-07-29 | Chaguaramas, Trinidad | 28 | Trinidad the "Hard" Way |
2000-08-10 | Chaguaramas, Trinidad | 29 | A Typical Boatyard Project |
2000-08-19 | Los Testigos, Venezuela | 30 | Llegamos en Venezuela |
2000-09-24 | Porlamar, Isla Margarita, Venezuela | 31 | Just an Ordinary Month |
2000-10-05 | Puerto Mochima, Venezuela | 32 | Of Storms and Silence |
2000-10-31 | Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela | 33 | The Best Kept Secret |
2000-11-28 | Chaguaramas, Trinidad | 34 | Goodbyes |
2000-12-16 | Rodney Bay, St. Lucia | 35 | Caribbean Revisited |
2000-12-21 | Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI | 36 | A Portrait of a Passage |
2001-01-29 | Hurricane Hole, St. John, USVI | 37 | Back in the U.S. of A. |
2001-02-03 | Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos | 38 | Superstition |
2001-02-26 | Abraham's Bay, Mayaguana, Bahamas | 39 | The Turks and Caicos Two-Step |
2001-03-21 | Warderick Wells, Exumas, Bahamas | 40 | It's Better in the Bahamas |
2001-04-12 | Brunswick, Georgia | 41 | Coming Home |
Brunswick, Georgia |
A few more pictures... |
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2001-05-15 |
Brunswick, Georgia |
Under Way Again |
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2001-05-24 |
Prince Creek, Waccamaw River, South Carolina |
42 |
The Low Country |
2001-06-08 |
Hampton, Virginia |
43 |
The Ditch |
2001-06-17 |
Onset, Massachusetts |
44 |
Way Cool |
2001-07-01 |
Southwest Harbor, Maine |
45 |
Sailing Sovereign Home |
2001-08-17 |
Southwest Harbor, Maine |
46 |
Nova Scotia |
2001-09-25 |
Onset, Massachusetts |
47 |
The End of Summer |
2001-11-03 |
Beaufort, North Carolina |
48 |
Snowbirds |
2001-11-14 |
Brunswick, Georgia |
49 |
The Home Stretch |
2001-12-19 |
Brunswick, Georgia |
2001 Christmas letter--the year in review |
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2002-12-14 |
Brunswick, Georgia |
2002 Christmas letter--what we're up to now |