Sail With Winterlude
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  • Alaska Live
  • Jan's Top 10
  • Commuter Cruiser Off Season 2013!
  • WL Updates Fall 2012-Spring 2013
  • Winterlude Updates Here!
  • Day By Day 2011 Refit
  • "Refit" SW Florida 2010
  • 2009 - 2010 Colon, Panama to Florida
  • Annapolis to SW Florida
  • 2004 - 2005 Cut The Dock Lines! NW Caribbean
    • Goodbye Burnt Store! Off to Marathon Key
    • Waiting For Weather: Marathon
    • Our First Crossing: Dry Tortugas to Isla Mujeres>
      • Handbasket I
      • Handbasket II
      • Handbasket III
    • Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres
    • Weather In Isla
    • Culebra Cays, Bahia de la Ascension, MX
    • San Pedro, Belize
    • Lamanai, Belize
    • Drowned Cayes & Belize City
    • Reflections On Cruising From Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize
    • Lighthouse Reef Atoll Con't
    • Tobacco & Colsen Cayes & Bluefield Range, Belize
    • Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • About David & Jan
  • Life Inside Winterlude
  • Outfitting Winterlude
    • Getting Ready to Cut the Dock Lines
    • Changes Cruising the Western Caribbean
    • What Works & What Doesn't
  • Catamaran Hotel & Resort, Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • Hurricane Charley
  • 2001-2004 Getting Ready Adventures
  • Tiger Cruise: US Navy
  • Lessons From The Bay Islands 2005-2006 (incl Robbed in Utila)
    • Robbed In Utila
    • Easting To Guanaja
    • Lucky Enough ... Jonesville, Roatan
    • One Particular Cut

Winterlude - Life On An Angle -- Can't WAIT!!! 

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Winterlude is a Bob Perry designed l985 Passport 37.  We found her in Hampton Roads, VA, brought her up the Chesapeake with her prior owner enabling us to get a firsthand look at her systems, bought her in Annapolis in Spring 2001.   In the future, we'll retire  and spend our winters cruising the Caribbean.  After spending the summer learning to cruise on Chesapeake Bay & getting a refit completed, Winterlude is now home at Burnt Store Marina on Charlotte Harbor, Florida!


Winterlude in Hampton Roads, VA 2001 ...   Before

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Winterlude Statistics:
Hull   # 2
LOA:  37'
LWL:  29'7"
Beam 11'11"
Displ  17,360 lbs
Fuel:  50 gal - Iron
Water:       65 gal - Stainless Steel
Sail Area:  619 sq ft
Engine:     Kubota 30 hp Diesel
Rig:   Sloop Rig
Ballast:     Lead:  6250 lbs

Winterlude in Isla Mujeres, MX 2010 ... After

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The upgrades and changes that we made in WInterlude have taken us safely through 8,500 miles from Annapolis all the way to Cartagena, Columbia and back. 

Check out the Outfitting Pages to see the highlights of what we added and changed, plus our synopsis of what worked and what didn't work ... we'll tell you what things we never used as well as those we couldn't live without!

The Family Car ... originally a Caribe 8' Roll Up

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Whatever you do, don't skimp on the family car!  The dinghy will provide your source of transportation to distant reefs for the best snorkeling as well as to town for provisioning.  Get the largest one that will fit aboard your boat easily.  For us that was small since we have minimal space aboard our foredeck and originally thought we needed a rollup so we could keep it below decks during passages.  This dinghy served us well for over 5 years when we opted to replace it with a 9' AB aluminum RIB which we had shipped to Roatan. 

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