Brimstone Hill Fort St Kitts
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Hauled out in St Kitts
New Sails 2026
Guanacaste stern swim platform
February 2026
Sint Estataus
We just visited this island. It is one of our favorite in the Caribbean. Here are a few images of our climb up the quail volcano here and then down into the crater, which is a tropical rainforest.
Dominica
Fort Shirley
January 2026
December 2025
June 2021
Mid June & Bermudas waters are just stunning!
Ana Luna is so happy to be back and now have covid restrictions largely lifted. Our crew team are vaccinated and liscense capacity back to 40 guests.
Due to market conditions Ana Luna is asked to focus on private charters. To add even more fun to the party we are now offering party favors for private groups. Huge inflatable unicorn float, blow up banana, bronco cushions, noodles, snorkle gear. Meal options from embellished snacks to sit down dinner cruise. Underwater lights have added a whole new aspect to ‘night life’!
Super to have Terry and Neitra back with us this summer..
They are the best, nice to bask in their smiles!
The past year has been, for all of us, a bit like Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz were washed together in an industrial machine. Between Covid-19 & the Trump un-election experience it has been a bit hard to navigate life & maintain ones equilibrium.
In reflecting on the past year of Ana Luna Adventures it has been nothing but total amazement.
Ana Luna Catamaran, captain and crew had several of the most memorable and challenging blue sea crossings in our history, from Bermuda to St Maarten, on to St Thomas & again from St Thomas to Guatemala only to arrive to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Largely locked down in the boatyard on Guatemala’s Rio Dulce our team did a super job of refitting the yacht, completely transforming her inside and out.
Please read our Refit 2020 page.
Years end 2020 proved for us and surely all readers to be equally surreal. My arrival back to Guatemala after spending the summer waiting out the pandemic in Colorado with family and friends was greeted by the two largest and strongest hurricanes in Central American history.
Adversity for sure, but transformed into a heartwarming several months at our home on Lake Atitlan in the Mayan Highlands, filled with many tales of wonderment. While the American election & Capital Riots raged we enjoyed harvesting coffee, avocados and passion fruit, riding petal bikes, hot tubbing & enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Launched, finally in early January 2021, Happy New Year! Our trip to Isla Mujeres and beyond has also been a mixed magical adventure. Please read our webpage.
Celebrating my birthday on February 12 with our daughter and grandkids and on Valentine’s Day with the Love of my Life Debbie, it feels like winter is moving to springtime.
Our crew team from Bermuda, Terry and Neitra are both flying into México to sail to Bermuda and many other great prospects have come forward to fill the fourth crew position, we feel blessed for their enthusiasm and support.
Ana Luna is sailing to get back to Bermuda early to enjoy the GP Catamaran Event set for late March and all of April.
We will be sailing to the practice sessions and finals.
Bermuda is truly blessed to host this world class event, Ana Luna team hopes to be right in the middle of it, reveling in the crew talent and ‘horse’-power of these amazing sailing machines. See page for cruise offerings.
Our ‘official’ sailing season opens on May Day, International Workers Day, celebrated world wide except the USA ( red scare ). We are enthused to focus our attention and emphasis toward the Bermudian workers who form valued parts of our team here in Bermuda. Ana Luna is working exclusively with local company PTIX for booking and reservations.
Additionally we have introduced a more formal and compensated way to work with our valued concierge teams who have sent guests our way for years.
Ana Luna is so happy to be back and now have covid restrictions largely lifted. Our crew team are vaccinated and liscense capacity back to 40 guests.
Due to market conditions Ana Luna is asked to focus on private charters. To add even more fun to the party we are now offering party favors for private groups. Huge inflatable unicorn float, blow up banana, bronco cushions, noodles, snorkle gear. Meal options from embellished snacks to sit down dinner cruise. Underwater lights have added a whole new aspect to ‘night life’!
Super to have Terry and Neitra back with us this summer..
They are the best, nice to bask in their smiles!
The past year has been, for all of us, a bit like Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz were washed together in an industrial machine. Between Covid-19 & the Trump un-election experience it has been a bit hard to navigate life & maintain ones equilibrium.
In reflecting on the past year of Ana Luna Adventures it has been nothing but total amazement.
Ana Luna Catamaran, captain and crew had several of the most memorable and challenging blue sea crossings in our history, from Bermuda to St Maarten, on to St Thomas & again from St Thomas to Guatemala only to arrive to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Largely locked down in the boatyard on Guatemala’s Rio Dulce our team did a super job of refitting the yacht, completely transforming her inside and out.
Please read our Refit 2020 page.
Years end 2020 proved for us and surely all readers to be equally surreal. My arrival back to Guatemala after spending the summer waiting out the pandemic in Colorado with family and friends was greeted by the two largest and strongest hurricanes in Central American history.
Adversity for sure, but transformed into a heartwarming several months at our home on Lake Atitlan in the Mayan Highlands, filled with many tales of wonderment. While the American election & Capital Riots raged we enjoyed harvesting coffee, avocados and passion fruit, riding petal bikes, hot tubbing & enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Launched, finally in early January 2021, Happy New Year! Our trip to Isla Mujeres and beyond has also been a mixed magical adventure. Please read our webpage.
Celebrating my birthday on February 12 with our daughter and grandkids and on Valentine’s Day with the Love of my Life Debbie, it feels like winter is moving to springtime.
Our crew team from Bermuda, Terry and Neitra are both flying into México to sail to Bermuda and many other great prospects have come forward to fill the fourth crew position, we feel blessed for their enthusiasm and support.
Ana Luna is sailing to get back to Bermuda early to enjoy the GP Catamaran Event set for late March and all of April.
We will be sailing to the practice sessions and finals.
Bermuda is truly blessed to host this world class event, Ana Luna team hopes to be right in the middle of it, reveling in the crew talent and ‘horse’-power of these amazing sailing machines. See page for cruise offerings.
Our ‘official’ sailing season opens on May Day, International Workers Day, celebrated world wide except the USA ( red scare ). We are enthused to focus our attention and emphasis toward the Bermudian workers who form valued parts of our team here in Bermuda. Ana Luna is working exclusively with local company PTIX for booking and reservations.
Additionally we have introduced a more formal and compensated way to work with our valued concierge teams who have sent guests our way for years.
GP Catamaran races
Stunning sailing on 50’ foiling catamarans.
Event was great, Debbie and I overnighted and enjoyed both days races
Downwind sail back to grotto bay was in record time with jib only. Huge rains followed later in the eve.
Covid lockdown doused charters. Now until May 10.
Bermuda Ho
Final Leg, Bahamas to Bermuda
While transiting the Bahamas we choose to sail south and east to exit a fierce northern cold front. The line of clouds and rain mark the border between the northern cold front and southern tropical weather. Sailing out of the horrible northern clime we witness numerous waterspout tornados, rain torrents in the distance and sunny weather to the south. The winds then shift drastically as we enter the southern zone.
Tacking we can now re-aim our course toward Bermuda. Winds fall to light as the cold front is pushed further to the north. As evening falls we can see a huge lightning event in the distant clouds of the frontal boundary.
This has been one of the most interesting and contrasting weather events I have ever witnessed firsthand.
Weather modeling now shows the northerly front being pushed far to the north and fair weather and light breeze for the next week of our passage.
Myself and crew greatly relieved and talk turns to arrival Covid-19 protocol, party’s, beaches, girls and flight back home. I am relieved for Ana Luna who has been a bit bashed around by the weather and sea, and for the crew who have had a rough spell and wonder a bit why they signed up for this ‘adventure’..
Typing on my watch at 1:15 am the moon is half full, full canopy of stars overhead and motor sailing in light breeze and slight seas the magic of adventure yachting has returned.
Seems a bit like a Wizard of Oz episode! The wicked witch is dead.
Sunday sailing is splendid. Light breeze from the stern, seas are rolling, we are in the real ocean now. Progress is slow, our forward speed diminishing the apparent wind we travel on.
Interesting shipping news out here, near Nassau Bahamas we spot over 20 cruise ships, all at anchor and mothballed for the time being.
At sea we spot a submarine on the surface and several giant bulk carriers whose waterlines are painted 30’ above the waterline, these will carry many 10,000 tons of bulk cargo.
Fairweather prevails, this is nice!
Fly asymmetrical forward sail for first time, this goes well and a good team effort, improves boat speed and heading. Doused at sunset as night weather can get windy quickly and doused sail is very exposed to weather and wind issues.
Another midnight wind event, classic! Front moves through and winds go up from nothing to over 30 in no time.
We charge forward at over hull speed, bashing, decks awash through the night.
Morning comes and relative calm, then real calm, then another front, this one full of rain and it pours before we become becalmed once again and motor sail.
So far the entire trip has been the least consistent conditions of any crossing any of us have done, ever! In keeping, daybreak brings lovely conditions with a 150’ wind shift, now to SE..and smooth for a day now. The new consistency is inconsistent with the journey to date.
March 24 and the moon is moving to full, the night illuminated with moonbeams. Magical..
Morning comes with a distant rainbow to our north, I make a wish for the safety of our crew and safe arrival of Ana Luna.
Motor sailing along and along… Get inreach weather forecast which calls for light breeze until after our arrival, so two days more motor sailing in light winds and slight seas.
Need to pour reserve diesel into tankage, fun on the high seas.. We have used more diesel and motored more than in all my previous crossings combined (8 crossings / 10,000 miles)
Stunning morning, now 240 nm out. Mating pairs of longtail swallows, Bermuda’s national bird, circle above chirping greetings. Getting closer, should arrive in two days.
Surprisingly, a barn swallow seeks shelter, strange how he got here as we are over 600 miles from any land. He flys into the salon, then out, then in, then lands on deck etc. Thinking he is exhausted and needs shelter I grab him and place in overturned veggies basket with a container of water and one of ‘food/saltines’. Hope he can rest and recover, will set him free in St Georges harbour.
Crew getting anxious to land, who can blame them, our journey is now in its 11 th day…
We motorsail on my watch in the early morning, moon setting, sky full of stars and planets.
On track to pass over the outer banks, hope we catch a fish or two. Since catching two right off the bat in mexico all we have hooked is sargasso weed & not just a little of it!
Type it and it is true,…Flying fish on deck to welcome the daybreak, amazing sea creatures who we see by the thousands. They see us and fly away by day but can’t see by night and end up on deck, or even hitting crew on their watches.
Now on final approach, Bermuda 30 nm away, full moon hides her powerful lighthouses.
Winds have been light for some time, unusual for March in NW Atlantic; unusual weather keeping with our theme!
Crew in good fetter, spruced up cabins and polished off the last of Debbie’s curry meal, her pre cooking greatly appreciated as is the new fridge/freezer. Laundry service the next of her charms! Love and miss her, my wife Debbie & the power and wisdom she brings to our family and Ana Luna team. It will be great to be back to her home turf in a few hours.
Radio from 32 miles off shore to Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre to announce our arrival and inquire regarding Covid-19 testing protocol. Speaking to them provides great comfort knowing that they would be in charge of organizing our rescue at any time we needed assistance. Marops is way head and shoulders above any port authority we have had contact with in terms of communicative professionalism. Kudos to their team.
Sun is coming up, will enter this blog again once we get settled back in Bermuda.
Best regards to all our friends reading this entry.
Nathan, captain s/v Ana Luna