Kai Ohana
May 28, 2008 - Ile A Vache, Haiti
- by Craig Bach
In February 2008, we embarked on an adventure of a lifetime from our home of nearly two years on the island of St. Martin in the French West Indies. We had spent those two years restoring a gaff-rigged ketch that would not only carry us to the four corners of the world, but also provide us an opportunity to make a difference in that world....
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May 10, 2008 - St. Thomas
- by Alexis Bach
When we arrived in St. Thomas I wasn’t doing so hot. It only took a few hours to get there from Jost Van Dyke, but that didn’t matter. It was only my second time to be out on the ocean with no islands to block the swell so I got sick once again. After we dropped the anchor in Long Bay, Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, put on the sail covers and the canvas awning for collecting rainwater and shading the mid-deck, we had dinner, and man, it was good considering I had a very empty stomach....
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April 15, 2008 - Joste Van Dyke
- by Craig Bach
We actually hadn't intended to go to Jost Van Dyke at all, most of the crew had already been there at the Bubbly Pool on a forfeited race boat during race week at Nanny Cay, but we met a gentleman in the boat yard who changed our minds. Kevin Gray, the Project Director for The Endeavor II Island Sloop, Jost Van Dyke's Preservation Society's Maritime Heritage boat building project, saw our masts from the road as he was driving by and excitedly pulled into the yard for a chat....
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April 10, 2008 - Haul Out
- by Craig Bach
I'd been in contact with Keith LiGreci, the Nanny Cay Boatyard manager, prior to Christmas when we had first decided we were heading west through the Virgin Islands. I'd intended to haul out once again before our trip through the South Pacific and doing it in St. Martin was not an option. There were only two lifts on the island capable of hauling us: Bobby’s in Philipsburg, and the other in the yard we had left in November, JMC Marina. Philipsburg was full, though I kept being told that, "next week we should have an opening," which never happened, and JC of JMC (where we spent nearly two years completing the renovation) dealt us our final insult when he charged us $2,400 for four months of water, which meant I wouldn't haul again with him if he were the last yard on the planet....
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April 10, 2008 - Spring Regatta
- by Sara Bach
After a long couple of weeks working on Kai Ohana in the Nanny Cay boat yard, Spring Regatta had finally come. I walked through the marina and saw a group of volunteers setting up for the event, a band practiced under the pavilion where I did my yoga in the mornings, and the volleyball court where we played after a long day of working on the boat, was now covered with hudge tents that sold food and booze for the competitors. Most of the race boats had come from Florida to Trinidad (the balance from around the world) and had filled the marina to capacity. I could barely discern the boats from the previous weeks in the marina from all the new arrivals....
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