She had been named after the previous owners children so it was felt appropriate to rename her.

Hejira yacht blog. The Edgartown Yacht Club launch ferried us from our mooring to the Club which was abuzz with regatta activity. Hejira in the Mediterranean. We have a brisk wind on the nose and we are motoring.

A few dozen oranges and apples completed our supplies and we were good to go. Stephen is our yacht medic Williams not Maturin and he did not have a good day. The pontoon was buzzing with all of the other yachts making their preparations too and many a hasty good luck and a safe passage were exchanged.

Hejira is a Southerly 135 RS series III sailing yacht built in 2004 in Itchenor UK and purchased in Holland in 2012. Hejira is a Moody S38 which we bought after Martin left work in September 2005. A joint statement between NZ and Ineos has been issued this morning.

We anticipated rain all day but not much materialized. Suffice to say that it has been technically tactically and politically intriguing. It took us a couple hours to figure out that ACK is the abbreviation for Nantuckets airport and it was a reminder of course that there are insiders and outsiders on this island.

Shelter Island backs up to the Hamptons on the eastern end of Long Island and is quieter than other NY beach outposts frequented by celebrities. So what does Hejira look like down below. We entered Edgartown in the midst of several regattas including the Wiannos we had seen back in Osterville.

We arrived on Shelter Island in Long Island Sound early afternoon. Wednesday 24 th June 2015. We plan to spend the next week sailing the coast of North Carolina with family and friends and then we will haul the boat out of the water and leave it in trusted hands until we are ready to sail again.