Category: Brad’s Blog

Hello fellow sailors! We are currently in Clarencetown which is a harbor on Long Island in the Bahamas. We had quite an adventure getting here! Cara and I had not…

Pursuant to the blog post on Departure Planning with PredictWind, I was able to connect with Nick Olson, Marketing and Business Development Manager of PredictWind. The departure planning part of…

Modern Weather Routing and Departure Planning Thursday, December 14th Althea is currently tucked up in Great Lameshur Bay in St. John USVI. Cara and I sailed here from Francis Bay…

Cara, Brad, Buster Pike and Garrett Carlson left St. George Bermuda at 0715 on Tuesday the 7th, entered Pillsbury Sound at 0330 and picked up a mooring in the harbor…

While we are in delivery mode, it is a bit easier to update the tracker Blog. is the link!Join us there for all the latest news. Brad, Cara, Buster…

Newport to Bermuda. October 28-October 31 3 days, 10.5 hours. Avg Speed (for the straight line of 635 miles) 7.7 knots. Avg Speed for total miles sailed of 673 miles:…

Tracking us is easy with PredictWind’s datahub and tracker!  . You can even see what the weather is like where we are.   PredictWind is a truly amazing company with powerful…

October 25, 2023 Dear Sail Newport Community! 2023 has been a fantastic year (40th anniversary year!!) of events, programs and regattas at Sail Newport. From the Ocean Race Stopover in…

We’re so psyched to be able to have Sail Newport host the Althea_Sailing blog.  In these pages, Cara and Brad Read will document some of the refit projects on their…

The Winter of 2019-2020 was one for the books! The bottom of the boat had 19 years of bottom paint and we called on our friend Dave McGhee and his…