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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts

Rebuilding the Solar System

June 20, 2020 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to destroy a system that no longer works, not just efficiently but at all, the only obvious progression is an[…]

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Sailing the Seas of Eastport

June 11, 2020 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

For the past few months (since before we got back in February) we’ve been piling projects up on our “when we get to Eastport and haul the boat” list. We[…]

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Fade into Bay

May 29, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Chesapeake City rained a little, gusted a bit and all the boats in the anchorage drug-down on their anchors… all but one, of course…us! One plastic-destroyer skipper actually motored up[…]

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Somnium

May 19, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

In the dream, the feelings, sensations and levels of stimulus on a sailing adventure that starts at 4 am in Long Island and ends one day and seventeen hours later[…]

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On Main Alone

May 7, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Days of gales at anchor, a wild ride in a monster truck (up and down the Eastern Seaboard to get our bikes to Annapolis)… …and some clever social-distancing from some[…]

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Jump

May 5, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

When the weather says ‘Jump’! We woke up, looked at the weather, weighed anchor and were underway, just like that, after three weeks of feeding the fire and foraging in[…]

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The gales of an isolated spring

April 21, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

The thought of riding out another southerly gale in the middle of Knock Down Alley between Dutch Island and Jamestown felt like a long growling sigh, grrr-argh! But Sunday was[…]

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Trusting Ourselves

April 17, 2020 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

I (Dena) woke at four in the morning and spent an hour and a half pondering dread. It’s not an emotion I spend a lot of time with, but I’ve[…]

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Seth Thomas – It Works!

April 4, 2020 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We got this Seth Thomas striking watch-clock at Captain Jim’s Marine Salvage in Portland, Maine last year when we first made landfall there as a boat-warming present to ourselves. It[…]

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No Longer Pushing Rope

April 3, 2020 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

Hands are sensory organs, and the difference to the hand between old and new lines is emotional, encouraging, adventurous. A soft handful of control, thick enough to grip and pull,[…]

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