Welcome to
Nine of Cups Website
Nine of Cups is a 45' Liberty cutter-rigged sailing yacht and we've lived aboard since April 2000.

Our current location:                     Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador
Nautical Miles Sailed in 2008:         2,050 on Cups + 1482 aboard yacht "Sadko"
Nautical Miles Sailed to date:        46,389  nautical miles since our initial departure from Kemah, TX in May 2000.
                                                                  
HOT NEWS....Crew working diligently to replace three fuel tanks and fabricate new bimini and various other canvas before planned departure for Puerto Montt, Chile in mid-September.  This update 22 August 2008.
David and Marcie with Nine of Cups in the background.
Jelly (given name: Magellan) is our ship's cat and as such has the run of the ship. In this shot, she is a little seasick. On a new passage, it takes her a day or so to get her "sea legs" just as it does us. Jelly has her own page.
Take a Tour of the Boat
s/v Nine of Cups under way
The Bahamas/ Turks and Caicos
Passages:
What's in a name?
The name "Nine of Cups" comes from a tarot card.  Tarot cards have a history as far back as the ancient Egyptians, and are used to tell fortunes.The Nine of Cups is an especially good card and predicts that your dreams will be realized. Pretty appropriate for us. The tarot card above came from a Portugese  tarot deck.
We were hoping to develop a unique logo for Nine of Cups and saw the bronze seahorses pictured above on a beautiful gate in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the summer of 2001.  We took a digital picture of it and  massaged the image to come up with the logo above right. 
The Dominican Republic/ Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Windward Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
Leeward Islands
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Venezuelan Out-Islands
Where in the world is
Nine of Cups? 
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We are call sign WCZ7548
Venezuela to Bonaire
Bonaire
Curacao
Jelly's Own Page
Colombia
Panama
Ecuador
Galapagos Islands 
Easter Island  
Peru/Bolivia 
Peru Revisited 
Chile   
Vital Signs
The Amazon River 
Frequently Asked Questions  
Patagonia
Tierra del Fuego
Antarctica
Uruguay
TransAtlantic 2 - St. Helena & Ascension Islands
Argentina
Paraguay
Trans-Atlantic - Tristan da Cunha
South Africa
Namibia
The crew's personal side...
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Read our articles and newsletters
Info for Fellow Cruisers and Sailors
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Sevens Seas Cruising Assn
Ocean Cruising Club
Summer 2007 - New England
Rescuing Sadko
Return to Panama 2008
Embera'Puru Village
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Islas Perlas & Darien Rivers
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Bahia Pina to Ecuador
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Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador
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