Spaceship Earth
Sailing record 1981 to present
Edwin & Wendy Cutler
Sailing6 record of our sailing ports since 1981
1981:
Ed Cutler had been doing NASA contracts for 15 hears and decided to do nothing in the year 1981.
He googles Sailing Yachts and called Chesapeake Yachts.
He offered to deliver boats for them and they arranged to fly Ed and Wendy to St. Lucia in the
eastern Caribbean. They would put us on a boat as crew with a captain and pay for everything.
Fly to St Lucia to deliver a boat to Chesapeake
Captain Trevor Robertson, becomes a long time friend
Bought Romarin in Annapolis from John Anthony
1982:
Moved to Greenbelt apartment
Sailed in and out of Solomon's on the Chesapeake Bay
1983:
Sailed in and out of South River
1984:
1104: cast off from Annapolis heading south
1985:
Sailed through Bahamas
0508: Turks & Caicos (rebuilt starter eight times on my birthday!)
San Juan, PR
Culebra
St Croix
Union
Grenada, saw Brooks who used to work on the Romarin
PSV to visit John & Casey
card we mailed them six months earlier,
arrived one night during a party
Grenada, experienced the aftermath of the Rescue Mission
Christmas in Venezuela
1986:
Los Roques
A place that changed from fear to island pleasur.
Aves
Bonaire
Cuacao
Aruba
Serana Bank
Seranilla Bank, no island, just surrounding reefs, awesome
0508: Swan Island (Ed's Birthday)
Roatan
Pensacola, visited Jack & Mildred
Dry Tortugas
Savannah (Andy)
Charleston(Julie&Chris)
Annapolis
New York (w/Bruce)
Newport, RI (George Day)
1001: Martha's Vineyard
sailed to NYC nonstop on
a north easter
thru the race on a flood tide
down the East River on an ebb tide
anchored below the Statue of Liberty.
New York
Chesapeake
1113: headed into Atlantic, bound for Bermuda, 15 ft. seas in Gulf Stream
1987: Bermuda
0107: started work at Bermuda tracking station NASA
0100: wrote Caribbean Kiss
0700: Hurrican Arlene
0910: Rusty died (Ed wrote a poem that was published in Bermuda)
0925: Hurricane Emily, 115 knot winds
1100: six months leave from Allied Research to sail south
1127: Broke mast near St. Martin, scarfed in a splice
1227: engine seized so we sailed 3000 miles with no engine.
1988: Antigua
Martinique
St. Lucia (Saw Trevor, our delivery captain)
Bequia
Union (Called PSV John had just left)
Antigua
0530: returned to Bermuda, 3000 miles with no engine
started West of Wisdom
worked at Bermuda tracking station, NASA
1989: Bermuda
worked at Bermuda tracking station, NASA
taught at U.Md & Chicago
1990: Bermuda
worked at Bermuda tracking station, NASA
taught at U.Md & Chicago
1991: Bermuda
worked at Bermuda tracking station, NASA
taught at U.Md & Chicago
Holloween storm: moved Eleuthera glass wall bridge
broke Nassau breakwater
Christmas in Hong Kong w/Gerry and Marianne
1992: Bermuda
worked at NASA
taught at U.Md & Chicago
1104: Left Bermuda for Antigua after 7 years
19 day passage to Antigua, 950 miles, relaxed slow passage
1993: Antigua
03: Storm of the Century in U.S.A.
saw it on satellite images three days before NWS warned
04: Morton & Maxine visited at Georgetown,s
07: Bottom job in Man-o-war, hot weather, W reacts to latex gloves
08-09: to cool off we stowed Romarin in Ft. Lauderdale
flew to Seattle and took the Marine Highway
up the west coast to Alaska
Seattle, Skagway, Fairbanks, Mt. McKinley, Anchorage,
Seward, Juneau, Sitka, Pr. Ruppert
We took train across Canada to Jasper,
rented car, Roger's Pass, Lake Louise, Banff
train to Toronto, Montreal, Albany, NY,
Washington DC, Ft. Lauderdale
10: built water tanks into Romarin
1994: Pompano
01: sailed down the Florida Keys
0601-06: Queen's Birthday Storm in South Pacific
0702-06: Fire on Storm King mountain,NW Colorado
We felt both of these tragedies could have been avoided
if they had looked at satellite weather images.
Sailed from Key West past Cay Sal, across tongue of ocean
Georgetown, Hog Cay cut, Ragged Island,
Deadman's Cay, Crooked Island, Hogsty Reef,
Great Inagua, Turks,
repaired Nicro Press rigging fittings anchored behind Great
Sand Cay
sailed to St. Martin for a dental appointment
0910: Morton & Maxine fly to St. Martin (peak of Hurr season)
Statia, Guadaloupe, Saints, Martinique, StLucia, Antigua
1995: Antigua
Hauled in Antigua Shipyard
coming wedding in Spokane Washington
should we leave Romarin in Antigua?
07: decided to make a 15 day passage Antiqua to Ft. Laud.
fortunately because would have lost her in hurricanes
07-08: Hurricanes in St. Martin and Antigua
0807: Left Romarin in Ft. Lauderdale and flew
to daughter Valerie's wedding in Spokane
08: Presentation to NWS in D.C.
Sailors want an image every two hours to predict
weather system motions
0822: purchased Bookit/Spaceship in Annapolis
0900: sailed Spaceship to Ft. Laud
1100: wintered at Hendrick's Isle
1996: Ft Lauderdale
0300: sailed down inside keys to Marathon
sailed Hawk Channel outside Florida keys to Key West
Gerry & Marianne, Rose Marie & Rich visited in Key West
all six of us slept on Spaceship
Shark River no seeums! then up west coast to St. Pete's
0521: Hauled Spaceship: fixed log shaft leak, bottom job
tornado off Appalachicola, diameter of sprayed water
three times the length of Spaceship. Hurricanes at
sea seldom hit anything. Hurricanes on shore alway
hits things.
Aligators in Lake Wimico,
we witness a young Osprey's first flight
Stayed at the Pensacola Yacht Club
0704: started back down west coast of Florida
watched Blue Angels perform
stopped at tween waters, then on south to Key West
Sold Romarin to Laurie Frazer and Bill Rawson of Key West
Grandson Eric visited in Key West. He and Ed flew Ultralights
Son Tim visited, sailed up to Ft. Laud
1207: crossed to Bimini
1213: arrived South Bight, Andros, stayed six months
1997: Andros
01,02,03: worked on Caribbean Kiss in Andros
04,05: Andros to Cay Sal, never met a sailor who has sailed there
marooned Cubans die, we didn't know they were in trouble
and sailed on to Key West, where we read of their
misfortune in the paper.
05 in KeyWest: Wind Generator, Water Generator, Solar Panels
0715-29 Ben visits Spaceship in Key West,sailed to Bimini
08,09,10: We stayed at brother Gerry's, worked on Caribbean Kiss
12: rented apt @ 2621 NE first str, Pompano Beach
1998: Pompano
01xx: Finished another version of Caribbean kiss
0220: Ed attended Florida Romance Writer's of America
0225: Ed came down with a bronchial cold
0304: Wendy " " " " " "
0317: Doctor Farber says it's Trachial Bronchitus
0325: We seem to have recovered, cured by Antibiotics
0408 0416: Visited Tim in Colorado, skied at Vale
0622-30: We flew to Rio de Janeireo for a week,
loved it, came back sick.
0715-17: Sailed from Hillsboro, down the Hawk Channel to Key West
07xx Sailed to Dry Tortugas
swam with leopard rays and nurse sharks, then back to Hillsboro
08xx Wendy visited grandchildren in North Carolina
When hurricane Fran threatened, she worried aboout me
in Key West. But it passed over NC and knocked down
trees that punched holes in the roof where she was staying.
0909-29 W.E. fly to visit Morton and Maxine in California
1008 W.E. fly to Amy's for Aunt Esther's 90th birthday
1019 W.E. Train to Jane Ellen's in Albany NY
1022 W.E. Train to Bruce and Ingrid in NYC
1024-1220 W.E. take Regal Empress around S. America (59 days)
Our only cruise ship. Hurricane Mitch missed us but
killed 10,000 Hondurans in mud slides.
Through the Panama Canal and down the west coast of
South America with a stop over to Machu Pichu.
Regal Empress Cruise around South America
Through the Straights of Magellan with strong winds
and ice bergs from a glacier
up to the east coast to Rio de Janerio.
Visited the mighty Iguassu Falls
Fortaleza, Brazil then on to the mouth of the Amazon.
Return to Florida
1225 Christmas dinner with brother Gerry & Marianne in Pompano
1999: Heading east for the Bahamas
01: Cleaned up Spaceship, moved aboard from apartment
0120 Bought SSC Polar Satellite System, mever really used it.
preferred Hoot's stationary Wefax.
0125 Weather Wizard arrived (never installed)
0129 Cast off from Pompano for the Bahamas
0302 Happy Birthday Wendy in Nassau
0330 Finley Cay and Schooner Cays sandbores, 1999
we don't know any other sailor who has sailed the
Schooner Cay sandbores. We are explorers.
Rock Sound, 1999
0420 Georgetown, Great Exuma Island, Bahamas
0424 dinner with Fred Schreiber
0520 Valerie set up edwincutler.tripod.com
Homepage for our adventure stories
0529 Left Georgetown bound for appointment with a dentist
in Philipsberg, St. Martin.
We had a schedule and a terrible sail
0624 Hauled @ Bobby's Marina,
they bent our prop shaft, replaced it and rebuild rudder support
bought Sony PCR-DC1 Digital Camcorder in Philipsberg
0721 sailed Spaceship down to St. Lucia
0729-0810 Wendy visited N.C. and lost her passport
0825-0827 WE flew to Barbados for a new Wendy Passport
1006 Sailed St. Lucia to St. Vincent and Bequia to see Bob Law
1109 Engine overheated, Fixman fiasco
1117 Hurricane with no wind
Engine apart, huge swells in Admiralty Bay, Bequi
almost lost Spaceship,
much damage on lee side of West Indies islands
1225 Christmas in Antigua, what a wonderful place.
2000: Caribbean
0101 New Year in Antigua
0105 Aunt Esther died at 96, we flew to Amy's for funeral
0227 sailed to down to Trinidad
0512 Stowed Spaceship and Flew to England,
visited Norway, Switzerland, France, England
07xx Boarded Independent Venture, England to Richmond VA
08xx rented car to visit Washington, NC, GA, FL
0907 Flew out of Miami to Trinidad
0918 painted Spaceship hull with Jotun BB99 Red
1101 Sailed from Trinidad to Grenada
1210 Arrived Bequia, saw Marianne formerly of Fridag
who we had met in Venezuela in 1985.
12xx Arrived Antigua for another Christmas and New Year
2001: Caribbean to Nova Scotia
01xx Left Antigua
sailed past Volcano on Monserrat, dust on Spaceship
Anchored in the lee of Isla Aves at 15 38N, 63 37W
Aves is a Venezuelan Island in the middle of the
eastern Caribbean. Few sailors have ever been there,
(we are explorers)
Then on to St.John, Puerto Rico, Dominican Rep
Westward south of Haiti with gale winds and 12 ft. seas.
Dead Calm in the Windwrd Passage, boarded by U.S. coast guard.
0207 Jumento Cays, through Hog Cay cut to Georgetown, Bahamas
0212 Arrived Ft Lauderdale, parked in #90 Isle of Venice
04xx Print & bound Caribbean Kiss, sent to some publishers
0503 right Ft. Laud bound north hoping to lay Newfoundland
0512 David Rhind's at Jacksonville
0522 Beaufort, NC, Oriental
sailed out of Ocracoke into Gulf Stream
Force ten winds heading for New Port, RI, north of Gulf Steam
0601 Newport, RI. after squally passage up Gulf Stream
08xx sailed through Bra d'Or lakes and on to Newfoundland
fog as we approached 47 34N 59 10W Port aux Basques
they saw us on their radar and guided us into harbor
Sailed east along the southern coast. clear mornings
and days with fog in late afternoon. GPS and radar used
to pass invisible rocks and into safe anchorages.
Ice bergs come down from Greenland and run aground off Newfoundland
09xx returned to Baddeck and rented a mooring
0911 Terrorist attacks on New York and Pentagon
1001 Moved from Spaceship into cabin at 5 Kennedy Dr. Baddeck
10xx Spaceship hauled & winterized at Baddeck Marine
1215 Snow, first we've seen after years in the Caribbean
2002: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
0221 Caribbean Kiss completed, with helpful edits by Annie Hill
0701 We sail 4 weeks exploring the Bras d'Or lakes
1115 Spaceship hauled & winterized at Baddeck Marine
2003: We fly to Tahiti to authenticate scenes for West of Wisdom
0103 Train from Baddeck to Jane Ellen's in the dead of winter
0108 W.E. fly to Morton's in California
0112 WE fly to Tahiti
0113 BoraBora
0116 Arannui to Marquesas and Tuamotus
0131 Moorea
0204 Papeete
0208 After a month in the South Pacific
We fly back to Morton's
0211 We visit Little Vanita and Elmer in Yuma Arizona
0215 Death Valley
0218 WE fly to Jane Ellen's (still winter in Albany)
0227 Train to Manhattan to son Bruce's, Jill Lamar, Paul Auster
0310 Train and Bus up to Montreal then to Baddeck
0420 Wendy's brother Gerry Ulrich
passed away on Easter Sunday
see poem in https://edwincutler.tripod.com/
05xx Wendy flew down visit Atlanta and Marianne
06xx Ralph Hanam, repaired Spaceship
fuel pump and water tank!
we thought the fuel tank was leaking, horrors!
but Ralph had the fuel pump rebuilt no more leaks
freezing winter had strained joints in the (empty?)
water tank and it starte slowly leaking, horrors!
Ed and Ralph turned it over and J.B.Welded the aluminum
welds and painted the tank with Stelflex.
It hasn't leaked since.
07xx WE sail Bay St. Lawerenc
Canso, Ballentyne, Pictou, PEI, Madelienne, Corner Brook
09xx Hurricane Juan, we move to Maskell's Harbor
Halifax blown down, PEI marina destroyed
our two Bulwagga anchors hold in 90 mile winds
10xx Hauled Spaceship in Baddeck for the winter
1231 Finished West of Wisdom
2004: Happy New Year, wintered in Baddeck
editted WOW and KISS, City Printers made copies
sent query and copies to Lynn Nesbit, Paul Auster
sent query and copies to Katharin Sands
bought 92 Mazda Protege car for $900
0630 planned to sail south in the fall, so moved out of cabin
0703 started motor trip to family reunion in Missoula, MT
0702 tented in Blomidon, NS Provincal Park
0705 ferried Digby, NS to Saint John, NB, St. Henri(motel)
07xx drove through Quebeq
to Montreal, to Chicago, to Iowa where Ed lived long ago
Montana, Vancouver, Montana, back to Baddeck 10,600 miles
0901 Left Baddeck sailing south hoping for a warm winter
Lunenburg, New Bedford, Newport, Block I., Cape May
Bonnie on St. Lawerence, Ivan in Newport, Jeanne in Chesapeake
1002 Daughter Dale's birthday at Pirate Cove on West River
1004 Sailed into Solomons Island, spent a month @Catamaran dock
1017 Family & friends reunion at Susan's, 40 people attended.
1106 Left Solomons for Crisfield, Ilene and Bermuda reunion
1108 Norfolk to New Bern on ICW,
1117 New Bern, Howard & Antonia Barrett
whom we met in Venzueala in 1985.
1127 Sailed past Cape Fear and down to Savannah, GA
1226 Tsunami in Indonesia
1220 Hillsboro & Pompano, replace spray dodger panels
2005: In the Caribbean again
01?? New main and mizzen, repaired foresail (Super sailmakers)
0119 Tim & Joe sail with us to Bimini, Joe sails to Nassau
0207 Willy & Steve Campos join us in Nassau, sail to Georgetown
0328 Amy & Austin arrive in Georgetown
0402 Tim, Kim, Grace, Livvy arrive in Georgetown
0409 Shelby and Nancy married in Kentucy, W to wedding
04xx Sent West of Wisdom to Sakya@Trafford.com
0527 Spaceship leaves Georgetown for Key West
Cross the sand bars below Andros Island
Anchor in Cay Sal banks, see crosses where Cubans died in 97
0604 Arrive Key West a town we have learned to love
0610 weathered Arlene in Key West
0704 weathered Cindy in Key West
0706 Dennis threatens, we leave Key West and head up Florida Keys
0708 weathered Dennis in lee of Key Largo, blows 70 knots
first time ever that Wendy said she was frightened.
0719 Sailed to Hllsboro, Sands Marina
0728 We sail 5 days up the Gulf Stream, heading for NY
0801 Wind dies, we motor into Beuford then New Bern
0806 Spaceship makes her home at Sheraton Marina perhaps for winter
0810 summer is hot! we buy our first airconditioner
0829 Katrina destroys New Orleans
0914 Ophelia, we hide in Upper Broad Creek off the Nuese River
tide rises six feet, we can see over marsh we were hiding behind
0920 We meet lots of sailors at the Marina and in New Bern
>>>> West of Wisdom finally published an available on internet
1015 We buy a 1995 plymoth Breeze from Maroth de Marothy for $1400
1020 Fall, it turns cold, we buy electric heaters
1025 Dick Murphie and Jo visit, Dick is a friend from Bermuda
1028 40 copies of West of Wisdom arrive, we're published!
1119 we drive the Breeze into Virginia, then West Virginia
1122 At Amy's in Silver Spring for dinner
1124 Thanksgiving at sister Susan's on Solomon Island
1126 visit brother Vern in Brandywine, MD where Ed grew up.
1128 Back to New Bern driving down the outer banks
1201 Boat is sweating, we vent windows and all is dry
1216 Drive to Atlanta for a wedding
1220 visit Andy in Atlanta, Shelby & Nancy in Charlotte NC
2006: New Bern, NC at Sheraton Marinia
02xx Ed diagnosed with early prostate cancer
0608 Ed started Cesium therapy (by Julia Purves)
West of Wisdom published.
Caribbean Kiss and West of Wisdom available on the internet
0610 Grandson William Kennard (eyesigh 20/7) wants to fly in
a hurricane plane. He sailed 2 weeks on Spaceship
inside the outer banks
1130 WE start to sail south from NewBern,
30 knots of following wind, 12 foot seas, too cold,
we should have kept going south but Ed lost his nerve
We returned to New Bern for another winter.
2007: New Bern
