Sun. Water. Adventure.

Some of This Log Is Already Written.

Some of this logbook is already written — and some of it was written in blood.

The Alaska to San Diego run was an education that no classroom delivers. Threading the Inside Passage south through Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Sitka — magnificent, unforgiving country that does not care about your schedule or your confidence. The cold gets into everything. The storms materialize out of nowhere, no warning, no apology — one moment you have clear skies and manageable seas, the next the wind is up and you are figuring out weather gear in real time, finding a defensible anchorage, and waiting it out. You learn fast what preparation actually means when the temperature is dropping and the spot you were counting on is no longer an option. You learn to read the sky earlier. You learn that the sea does not negotiate.

Mistakes were made on that run. Some of them hurt. None of them sank the boat. Shamrocket survived everything the Pacific coast threw at her — and every hard lesson from that run is now burned into the foundation this expedition stands on. You do not get to the next chapter without earning it. That run earned it.

The Sea of Cortez was something else entirely. Eight months. From Cabo San Lucas north through the whale sharks circling Isla Espíritu Santo, the sea lion colonies barking at Los Islotes, the pristine desert anchorages of Agua Verde and Puerto Balandra near Loreto — anchorages that experienced cruisers rate among the finest in the world. La Paz as a base. Mazatlán across the Sea. Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Zihuatanejo, and all the way down to Acapulco. Eight months of the most magnificent coastline and sea life on the planet — blue whales, humpbacks, manta rays, remote islands with turquoise water so clear you can read the bottom at forty feet. After the cold and the storms of the Pacific Northwest, the Sea of Cortez recalibrated everything: what this boat can do, what this sailor is made of, and what this expedition is actually capable of becoming.

Now it's time to do this at a scale no one has seen before.

The BEC — Bahamas & Eastern Caribbean.

Launching November 1, 2026 from Palafox Pier in Pensacola, Florida. 558 days. 63 stops across four volumes — the Gulf Coast, the Keys, the Bahamas chain, the Lesser Antilles from Puerto Rico to Trinidad, and back west through Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, and Mexico to Puerto Aventuras.

The BEC is the opening chapter of Blue Rim 5™ — a multi-year coastal sailing program that continues from Puerto Aventuras into the Rim Run Caribe™ (expected January 2028) and eventually the Pacific circuit. But right now it's about the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean, done right, with no rush and nowhere to be but the next anchorage.

This Is Not Escape. It's the Point.

The reef work matters. But so does everything around it — the evenings at anchor, the food, the people, the stories, the rituals. That's the other half of this. What the Mint Julep is to horse racing, the Rim Runner™ is to this expedition.