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Cover Page
A Sail of Two Idiots: 100+ Lessons and Laughs from a Non-Sailor Who Quit the Rat Race, Took the Helm, and Sailed to a New Life in the Caribbean
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Lessons
Nautical Mumbo-Jumbo
Preface
Contemplating the Plunge
1 Whose Idea Was This Anyway?
2 Monohulls vs. Catamarans
3 Let’s Buy a Boat
4 The Best-Laid Plans
5 Ahoy, Matey!
Casting Off
6 And We’re Off—Not
7 Bahamas Here We Come!
Exploring the Islands
8 Welcome to the Bahamas!
9 Becoming Green Turtle (Abacos)Bahamas Residents
10 Breaking Free!
11 You Can’t Go Home Again
12 Back to the Abacos: Practicing and Fixing, Fixing and Practicing
13 Good-Bye, Abacos, Hello, Exumas (in the Central Bahamas)
14 A Milestone Is Reached–George Town (Bahamas)
15 Who You Calling Chicken? Bahamas, Stage Left
16 Turks and Caicos–Definite Possibilities
17 The Dominican Republic—Island A+, Anchorage F–
18 Our Longest Sail Ever—Adios, Dominican Republic!
19 Hola, Puerto Rico! The United States on Island Time
20 If We Can’t Be Virgins, Then Let’s Go to Them (the Islands, That Is)
21 Bonjour! Welcome to St. Martin (and a Quickie to St. Barths and Anguilla)
22 Island Hopping to Saba, Statia, and St. Kitts and Nevis (Islands That Brush the Clouds)
23 A Stowaway on Antigua
24 Graffiti and Guadeloupe
25 Oh When Des Saintes
26 Lush-Ous Dominica
27 Martinique Gets a Quickie
28 Was That St. Lucia?
29 Reverse Course—Back to Antigua!
30 And Back Down Again on the Jacumba Express
31 Coo-Coo for Carriacou
32 From Miami to Grenada: Who’d Have Believed It?
33 St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Otherwise Known as Paradise
34 Solo Sailor on Grenada
35 The Final Run
36 Hurry Up and Wait
37 Is This It?
38 Maybe, but Let’s Go to Barbuda for a Look-see
39 It Was a Bad Sail; It Was a Good Sail
Landlubbers Again
40 You’re Hired, We’re Home (Sort of)
41 Sell, Sell, Sell!
42 Sold … Based on Survey
43 D Is for Deflated, Dispirited, Depressed
44 Change That to Delighted, Delirious, Disembarking!
45 Where Are We Now?
Now It’s Your Turn
46 Time to Take the Plunge
47 Observations and Lists
Appendix: How We Chose Our Island
Acknowledgments
Index
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