Welcome to the TabbyCat
website. TabbyCat is a sailing catamaran built in Maine, USA by Maine Cat, a small builder of high
quality sailing and power catamarans. We ordered her new in September
2004 and picked her up in Maine in September 2005. We have lived aboard
ever since (that would be 5 years and counting)...
"Archived" logs will be
found by clicking on the 
link
to the left, they read in chronological order.
Don't
forget to say "hi" and tell us what you think, give comments, etc, by
clicking on the comments link at the bottom of the page.
July 5 - ??? We
are in the ABCs! We will be here for the summer and into the fall
trying to have some fun and avoid major storms that seem to show up in
the summer.
July 20 - 28???
We arrived in Aruba after a long day of sailing dead down-wind (DDW)
with the spinnaker. A great primer for when/if we head across the
Pacific. Hour after hour of being pushed by both the wind and the
waves. Clear, blue skies. Beautiful blue water. Venezuela off our port
and the small puffy clouds away on the horizon indicating "land".
On our way to Aruba, we had another installment of:
Let's Play!!
One
of the "cool" intermittent things that we get to experience is Dolphin
Swim Time - aka "Let's Play!" These mammals of the deep must hear 
"TabbyCat"
as she runs through the waves and they suddenly converge from all over.
This day's pod showed up in the mid-morning. We had just gotten
the spinnaker
up and were moving pretty fast (for us!), and then the dolphins showed
up, dancing in the bow wave in front of the boat, moving from just in
front of one hull and then over to the other. After about 20 minutes,
they suddenly dive straight down and disappear. We don't see this very
often, but it's way cool when it does happen.
July 16 - 19. Curacao - A nice "short" sail, including
our first successful flying of the spinnaker got us into Curacao from
Bonaire. After a short stay, we decided to move on to Aruba in the
hopes of finding better beaches and swimming so that Susan can continue
her running and swimming.
July 5 - 15. Bonaire - After an unexpected, extended stay
in St. Thomas geting our dinghy repaired (STILL, not 100%!!), we
arrived in Bonaire, the easternmost and smallest island in the ABC
group. Perhaps the diving capital of the entire Caribbean, we dove here
3 times together, while Susan added a fourth night-time dive.
TabbyCat
under full sail - Boothbay, Maine
(Here is
a wonderful shot of TC under sail, because it shows her with her full
complement of sails)
TabbyCat reaching out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine
TabbyCat
sailing to Grenada
(This is
another SUPER shot of us under sail in the Caribbean - taken by Peter
and Nani Sadler on s/v Joule)
As always, please send us your comments since we would like to
hear from you!
