Gap year on the Endeavor

By Annie We have arrived in the Caribbean!    Playa Flamenco in Culebra, PR Since we haven’t blogged in some time, I’ll back up just a bit to explain how we got here.   By late October, we were in the Hampton / Norfolk area in Virginia.   The kids and Daisy and I flew back to Wisconsin at the very end of October, while Rogge geared up and prepped the boat to do the Salty Dawg rally - the passage to the Caribbean across the Atlantic Ocean.   The rally is a group of people who get together to do the passage, not to sail in a pack exactly (since all the boats go different speeds), but there are lectures on the safety, routes and conditions you might encounter, and the organizers stay in touch with all the boats to give advice on weather updates during the passage itself.    Rogge did the long passage with two friends and two family members.   The passage ended up being about 13 days.   They had some seasickness, and some challenges, but it sounds like it ended on a hig

November 20 st Yesterday (Nov 19th) we were sailing across from Fajardo, Puerto Rico to the small island of Culebrita, off the other small island of Culebra. On the way we were trolling and an hour from Culebrita we had a bite. I started reeling it in and halfway through I gave the reel to Fox, and a minute later he gave it back to me. I thought that the fish might have come off the line because it was lighter. We started to talk about whether we would eat it or not. But as we reeled it all the way in, we saw that something had already eaten it, AS we were reeling it in!