Big Sky Yachts

08/12/2025

Another hot, humid day here in Tivat, Montenegro but that didn’t prevent us from accomplishing a full day of tasks. Fore sails have been installed, the dinghy inflated and cleaned, new deck hatch latches installed, larger buckles sewn on the mainsail cover, max prop serviced, most of the running rigging installed, including reefs. Some paperwork has been completed through the boat yard to allow us to leave the country soon. It has been discovered that there is a wasp nest inside the boom. Those insects are wily and bite!

Bit of a walkabout around the boat yard where you can always find something interesting to investigate. This is their high season and the yard doesn’t have many boats in it, but the ones here are interesting ….

12/13/2024

The next cool thing from J Boats! Let us know how we can help you realize your sailing dreams!

12/26/2023

Hmm. Just another night in Panama…

the orange/red line is our intended course. We’re just sailing along minding our own business when this squall/thunderstorm thingy shows up on our radar like a deer in the headlights. Lightning, shifty gusts, general mayhem. Let’s see if we can go around it. Not quite…

Quick, close hatches for the free boat wash!

Carry on until the next one

12/19/2023

12/19/2023

Tehuantepec experience. All the adventure with none of the fun.

10/31/2023

They say you're never more than a mile or two from a J/24 but is there a cruising future for this 1970s race design, asks Rupert Holmes

06/02/2023

Worth the read!

The famous British ocean racer, adventurer and author Pete Goss has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles at sea. He and his wife Tracey also lived and sai...

04/18/2023