| 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. |
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| 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. |
| s/v Nine of Cups under way |
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| 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. |
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