We’ve hauled our three boats out of the water a total of 7 times. Each time, it’s been fucking miraculous. For the two weeks we had our boat on the[…]
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Dog Damn the IC(Fucking)W!
We passed statute mile 1000 this morning just after my (James’s) second watch…just after my first visible-light watch, about two hours after we kedged off the bottom in the southern[…]
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The Moon and Mars
Another night where it never got dark! Hold on there, brushfire, we got some story tell’n to do! So we rolled on down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway meaning, we trudged[…]
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Four days offshore, Beaufort to Fernandina Beach
Beaufort was a terribly tight anchorage, which is what we’d heard and why we’d chosen the dubious charms of Morehead City each and every other time we’ve come through the[…]
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NY-VA Day 1: And off we go!
We went to Port Washington on glass water in a thick forbidding fog that engulfed our little world all the way to Manhasset Bay. That’s where the gloom released it’s[…]
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Sailing on…and on…
I (James) was really stoked about this next part of the adventure. Not only could I not wait to use the watermaker again, we were sailing to a place we’d[…]
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A way back…way back.
We stayed on Block Island for an (I [James]don’t give a fuck) amount of time and ultimately set our sights for that down-eastern reach we were just fantasizing about. We[…]
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What?!
We showed up at 0630 on day three and dove into the project like a couple of giddy school kids. In our recap of the mast project the night before[…]
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Mast unstepped
On Monday, nice and early, we pulled into the empty slip almost directly in front of the crane. A salty long-haired guy caught the bow line and somehow managed to[…]
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Finally the mast!
After searching for over three months to find a shipyard that could and would pull our mast, we were almost desperate and getting turned down was starting to get infuriating.[…]
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