Aeolus is a 1970s Cape Dory 27. After COVID I refitted her and sailed her from New York down the East Coast and across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas: the Abacos, Eleuthera, Cat Island and the Exumas. She is in Georgia now, waiting for an electric motor. This is the log: passages, repairs, what I cooked, and the saxophone on deck.
On February 26th 2022 my friend Benjamin Whiting of the Flying Spur met me in Fort Laureldale to do the Gulf Stream crossing to the Bahamas with me, we started the day with some provisioning, then we topped off the oil and the diesel in Aeolus 1 Cyli
Aeolus Refit my main purpose in stopping in Georgia was to meet circumnavigator James Baldwin of Atom Voyages and ask him to work on my boat. I had already done quite a bit of work on it myself such as: installing a radar, an AIS transmitter, changin
Th evening of October 26, looking at the weather report for October 27 2021, I was not so keen on getting back on the Atlantic to go to Cape May. The direction of the wind was good, coming from north, but it was supposed to be pretty rough out there
The departure was scheduled for 10/24 because my friend John B, had to work all of Saturday, but the weather predictions where changing and if we hoped to get a little wind on our way south, time was of the essence. I decided to go ahead and prepare
The plan is to leave on the first weather window from October 24th 2021 in order to go to Norfolk, VA and take the ICW. The ICW, or intracoastal waterway, is a system of canals that allows boats to travel around the United States and parts of Canada
Cape Dory 27 – Hull # 48 – Aeolus After sailing Anarchy for a wonderful season on the long island sound, I had a growing desire for something more comfortable that would allow me to stand in the cabin and have a place to cook and sleep. A marine head
Anarchy is a Merit 25, this boats very popular on the West Coast. Fast racing boat not dissimilar from the J25, they are as fast but not as wet. A sailor in the West Coast, Paul Kamen, after making a few modifications, took one of those merit 25 all
Temperatures in October and November along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway As I get closer to my departure date at the end of October, I wanted to check out the average temperatures on my way south. It turns out it should be still pretty pleasant
April 2019 I put it out there in the universe and I got It. I received a free boat. A beautiful Merit 25 sailboat was donated to me by the City Island Yacht Club in exchange for me joining the club for the next two years. After getting my ASA 101 at
The Origins – Aurora One reason why I’m so in love with boating is that my father for a short period had a beautiful Schooner. My father Wilson Chelo, was a travel agent, as a business venture he took an old fishing vessel and completely rebuilt it b