Sailing Vessel Sovereign

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Recent news:
* Sovereign has been sold.  Her new owner sailed her across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 2004.  You may want to look at the new owner's web site.
* Jim now operates a sailing charter business in Pensacola Beach, Florida (on the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle).  Please check out Pensacola Sailing Tours to find out about chartering in one of the finest daysailing locations we've ever seen.

 
Sovereign sails off Block Island
Sovereign under sail

Jim and Cathy in Grenada Jim and Cathy in Grenada

Welcome to the voyages of Jim and Cathy Mueller. We lived aboard our Pratique 35 sailboat Sovereign between 1988 and 2001. The cruise chronicled here began in 1999. To get a better idea of the geography involved, here is a map of our trip.

Below is an archive of e-mails and photos of this trip.

Take a virtual tour of Sovereign below decks.

Too much CruiseNews and too little time?  If you can't make up your mind which CruiseNews to read, may we suggest reading a few of our favorite tales like The $92 O-ring.  See what it's like to sail offshore in A Portrait of a Passage.  Or read about our favorite destinations:  Maine, Dominica, Venezuela, and Coastal Georgia.

Date Port of Call # Subject
1999-05-15 Brunswick, Georgia
Still in Brunswick
1999-05-22 Brunswick, Georgia
Today's the Day!
1999-05-25 Thunderbolt (Savannah), Georgia 1 Hurry Up and Wait
1999-06-03 Beaufort, NC 2 CruiseNews #2
1999-06-09 Elizabeth City, NC 3 North Carolina
1999-06-14 Hampton, VA 4 The (not so) Dismal Swamp
1999-06-28 Block Island, RI 5 Block Island
1999-07-10 Newport, RI 6 Newport, Newport, Newport
1999-07-16 Newport, RI 7 The $92 O-ring and Other Unbelievable Tales
1999-07-25 Southwest Harbor, ME 8 Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-jig
1999-08-08 Southwest Harbor, ME 9 A Vacation from Retirement
1999-09-13 Southwest Harbor, ME 10 A Cruise Through History
1999-09-06 Southwest Harbor, ME 11 Fish Out of Water
1999-10-05 Southwest Harbor, ME 12 You Get What You Pay For
1999-10-23 Newport, RI 13 Sailing Through Molasses
1999-11-4 Annapolis, MD 14 Passage from Newport
1999-11-13 Hampton, VA 15 Weather or Not to Go?
1999-11-17 Hampton, VA
The Window Opens
1999-11-30 St. George, Bermuda 16 To Bermuda
1999-12-07 St. George, Bermuda 17 Bermuda Ashore
1999-12-16 Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands 18 Passage to the BVI
2000-01-05 Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands 19 Island Time and Holidays in the BVI
2000-02-18 Simpson Bay Lagoon, Sint Maartin, Netherlands Antilles 20 Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
2000-03-07 English Harbour, Antigua 21 Cruising's Not What You Think It Is...Until Now
2000-03-25 Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies  22 Guadeloupe
2000-03-30 Roseau, Dominica 23 Dominican Champagne
2000-05-06 Rodney Bay, St. Lucia 24 Martinique and St. Lucia
2000-05-31 Admiralty Bay, Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25 St. Lucia and Bequia
2000-06-21 Hog Island, Grenada 26 Same Stuff, Different Island
2000-07-03 Hog Island, Grenada 27 Spice Island
2000-07-29 Chaguaramas, Trinidad 28 Trinidad the "Hard" Way
2000-08-10 Chaguaramas, Trinidad 29 A Typical Boatyard Project
2000-08-19 Los Testigos, Venezuela 30 Llegamos en Venezuela
2000-09-24 Porlamar, Isla Margarita, Venezuela 31 Just an Ordinary Month
2000-10-05 Puerto Mochima, Venezuela 32 Of Storms and Silence
2000-10-31 Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela 33 The Best Kept Secret
2000-11-28 Chaguaramas, Trinidad 34 Goodbyes
2000-12-16 Rodney Bay, St. Lucia 35 Caribbean Revisited
2000-12-21 Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI 36 A Portrait of a Passage
2001-01-29 Hurricane Hole, St. John, USVI 37 Back in the U.S. of A.
2001-02-03 Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos 38 Superstition
2001-02-26 Abraham's Bay, Mayaguana, Bahamas 39 The Turks and Caicos Two-Step
2001-03-21 Warderick Wells, Exumas, Bahamas 40 It's Better in the Bahamas
2001-04-12 Brunswick, Georgia 41 Coming Home

Brunswick, Georgia

A few more pictures...
2001-05-15
Brunswick, Georgia

Under Way Again
2001-05-24
Prince Creek, Waccamaw River, South Carolina
42
The Low Country
2001-06-08
Hampton, Virginia
43
The Ditch
2001-06-17
Onset, Massachusetts
44
Way Cool
2001-07-01
Southwest Harbor, Maine
45
Sailing Sovereign Home
2001-08-17
Southwest Harbor, Maine
46
Nova Scotia
2001-09-25
Onset, Massachusetts
47
The End of Summer
2001-11-03
Beaufort, North Carolina
48
Snowbirds
2001-11-14
Brunswick, Georgia
49
The Home Stretch
2001-12-19
Brunswick, Georgia

2001 Christmas letter--the year in review
2002-12-14
Brunswick, Georgia

2002 Christmas letter--what we're up to now


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