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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts

Dog Damn the IC(Fucking)W!

January 6, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Fiction, Life Under Sail

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

December 15, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

November 22, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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!

November 2, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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…

October 19, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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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Yarmouth to P-Town

October 8, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Ocean sailing is truly like a dream. We got up before the sun and made ready in short order. Cetacea had remained ship-shape for our entire Canadian sojourn so making[…]

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System failures…

October 6, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

…are no doubt part of the game when it comes to offshore sailing. The offshore passage to Cape Cod from Nova Scotia had a system failure that took us both[…]

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Lighthouses and Fiona

September 28, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Nova Scotia (or some subset of Nova Scotians the makeup of which I cannot really imagine) have designated a certain route around the southern coast as the “Lighthouse Route”. There[…]

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New Scotland or what?

September 20, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

The shadows were getting long like it was autumn but it felt all too soon. The anchorage in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is beautiful looking west to Doctors Island. It’s one[…]

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Walking Grand Manan

September 6, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Oh Canada, oh man, we love Canada. The (almost cool) app-and-phone-call clear-in from the Canadian Border Patrol was an unfamiliar and somewhat unsettling experience (who expects that kind of thing[…]

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