Fiona News Network

In 2015 Eric donated a scholarship fund to the Bolton School’s Girls’ Division in honor of his late wife Edith.  The scholarship to study Medicine at University was offered to three students from the Bolton School’s Girls’ Division.  The Dr Edith Forsyth...

Bob Berg machined a new set of support struts for the Aries, Victor the Vane.  The joints had become very worn.  On Saturday John installed them, we also reinstalled the grounding plates, which I had been soaking for a week in weak acid. Weeks are preparing...

Will and Al have signed up for the Maine cruise.   Scott may join the boat for a week or two.   Scott and John came to the yard early Saturday and we cleared up a few maintenance chores - removing the ground plates for cleaning, tidying up the...

Tom Lohre who crewed for a transatlantic crossing in 2018 has completed a painting of an event that occurred years ago when Fiona was struck by a whale. The place is south of the Cape Verde Island, the time is October, 2002. He has dramatized the incident - artistic...

My son Colin came up from Tennessee and we got a lot of boat maintenance out of the way; painted the mast and boom, varnished the cabin sole, attacked a leak in the aft cabin hatch.  I am still hoping to launch the boat in summer for a Maine cruise and a winter...

Sorry for the hiatus of Fiona news, it has been a cold winter in Long Island, without much boat work getting done.   Also I have suffered from bronchitis all winter.    Last weekend it warmed up and I re-installed the electronics.  I am now...

The video of Fiona's 2017 to 2018 cruise has been posted on the streaming page.  It is entitled 'An Easy Sail to Portugal and the Caribbean'   and runs 69 minutes.  Click HERE to watch it.  

It has been rather cold  for work on Fiona for the past couple of weeks.   But today, Sunday, the temp struggled past 40F I went down to Weeks to try the new GPS receiver.  I first got it in December, it displayed the boat position fine, but the...