Sailing with Nine of Cups

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:                      Club Nautico Reloncavi, Puerto Montt, Chile
Nautical Miles Sailed in 2009:        0
Nautical Miles Sailed to date:        50,254 nautical miles since our initial departure from Kemah, TX in May 2000.

HOT NEWS....Crew back in Puerto Montt and aboard "Cups" to celebrate New Year's Eve with good friends. Lots of repairs and
maintenance to complete before leaving Chile in Feb/March timeframe.     ( This update 1 January 2009)

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.