SV Unladen Swallow is home to Lee & Brownie Hutchins . We retired early and sold everything to buy this 2002 Beneteau 47.7 First in December of 2020. Since then we have sailed almost 8,000nm and done 2 parts of a 3 or 4 part modernization focused REFIT. Highlights include 2000W of Solar, 1200 AH of Lithium batteries, new electronics and a new swim platform to support our Scuba Diving habit.

This site will provide the means to track our location in real time HERE. Allow us to share the LOG of our adventure – the great days, the good ones and the not so good ones …. nothing about updating this boat has gone to plan….

This site will also serve as a means to contact Lee (an SSI Divemaster Instructor) for SCUBA DIVING INSTRUCTION as well as share Lee’s UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY work.

We look forward to sharing our adventures with you!

The Logs of SV Unladen Swallow

The Time before the boat..... 2020

Logs for 2021

Highlights:

• Carter’s Cove Refit

• ASA Courses

• First East Coast passage South

• Thanksgiving in FL and Sea Love Marina – part 1

• Scuba Diving at Marathon Key

• Boca Chica Marina – part 1

Logs for 2022

Highlights:

• Dry Tortugas

• Boca Chica Marina part 2

• Sea Love Marina part 2

• Bahamas

• Port Canaveral, FL

• St Augustine, FL

• Charleston, SC

• East Coast North

• Chesapeake & the Potomac River

• Chesapeake & Annapolis

• C&D, DE River/Bay, New Jersey, NYC

• Long Island Sound

• Fairhaven Ship Yard

• Back to Annapolis

• Moorhead City, NC

• St Thomas, USVI

Logs for 2023

Highlights:

• St Thomas, USVI

• Curracou

• Puerto Rico

• St Thomas, USVI

Logs for 2024

Highlights:

• St Thomas

• Hurricane Beryl

• Florida (recovery)

Logs for 2025

Highlights:

• Find a Boat

• Survey

• Buy it

• Determine what needs to be done - Refit 2025

• Leave again