We have taken Serene to Safe Harbor Great Oak Landing Marina on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for some scheduled maintenance. (Yes, we crossed the Atlantic and spent last winter in the Caribbean! Upda ...

The ARC start date is finally here! We were ready to go with a crew of Jill, me, our friend James Lee, and his friends, Kathy and Mike Rigo. We left the dock in Las Palmas at 11 AM. The start was at 1 ...

A few weeks ago we were in Gibraltar, staying in the Queensway Quay marina. Then we sailed into the Mediterranean for a few weeks, and now have returned to the Gibraltar area, and are now in Marina Al ...

From July 27 to 30 we sailed from A Coruña to Porto, with two nights at anchor in Muros and one night in the marina in Baiona. Both towns are very nice. Winds were generally light--sometimes we had t ...

On Tuesday July 18, Serene finally took off on her first passage--across the Bay of Biscay from Les Sables d'Olonne, France to A Coruña, Spain. It was six weeks delayed from when we had hoped to be a ...

Serene has been launched! On June 9th, she was lowered into the water in La Rochelle, France. You can see the video on our Sailing Serene Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/NylADudJhQs We'll h ...

Jill and I are in La Rochelle now, and of course we wanted to see our boat. It didn't take long to find it. It was on blocks in the "Plateau nautique" near Gulf Stream, our aftermarket vendor. We thin ...

The time has come for us to take off on our adventure! We leave tomorrow, May 4th for La Rochelle, France. This is located on the west coast of France. Our boat will have some after market work compl ...

Our boat left the factory in Le Poiré-sur-Vie today, and was transported by truck to La Rochelle, where after-market work and commissioning will be done. Here are two videos--one on the road, and one ...

We were just sent a few photos of our boat in the Excess factory in Le Poiré-sur-Vie, France. It's looking great! It's due to leave the factory and be trucked to La Rochelle for after-market work on ...