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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts

And then I was done

May 20, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts

I worked this last 14 months. It wasn’t mostly fixing flat tires, but there was rather a lot of that. This very last flat of my North Shore commute was[…]

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Geographically inspired

February 12, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

I (James) have a winter problem. My problem with winter in New England isn’t that it’s cold. I don’t really mind the cold that much. My problem is nothing, meaning[…]

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It’s on

December 20, 2021 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

So, the past two weekends we finally did a project that we’ve been wanting to do since we got S/V S.N. Cetacea… We isolated our starting battery away from the[…]

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The Six Town Ride

November 27, 2021 Dena Dena's Blog Posts

I’m so glad that James took care of the Beverly Port story. I was still wrapped up in getting our money back from them (first she said no refund, then[…]

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Loosening Ties

May 31, 2021 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

Colloquial sayings stick around because they strike a chord, but the best of them work in multiple situations with multiple meanings. “Don’t shit where you eat” is a saying that’s[…]

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Realizing Color

November 30, 2020 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

James’s artistry has taught me (Dena, of course) so much about apprehending the beauty around me. He shows me the world through his photos, which also trains my eye to[…]

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…on the Prodj

October 19, 2020 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

It’s the only work worth doing! When I (James) posed that hypothesis to a woman on the docks in East Hampton, New York, she laughed at me and replied, “Motherhood[…]

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Downeast Treat

August 14, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

One of the best things about being a reader of bloggy things is you don’t have to live through the doldrums! We motored from the Isles of Shoals in New[…]

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Capes and Isles

August 12, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Rounding Cape Ann has never been simple. This time, it was fog. A thick mess had us sitting tight until it lightened to about a quarter-mile visibility. We didn’t have[…]

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A Mass Bay

August 11, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

Back in truly familiar waters, the sail from Onset to Plymouth totally rocked. With the usual on-again-off-again sailing through the Bay we blazed in under main alone, you know, like[…]

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Attacking the wind charger
A rare nice morning in Lynn
Filling the future lag holes with epoxy
Drilling the aluminum
Drilling for the Seatiger 555
The cause of the flat
Dena's last North Shore flat
Dena in James's scally cap
Holes in the bowsprit...

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