Her first haulout was a long one – out last September and in at the beginning of April. It really was the same thing in reverse. The guy who did[…]
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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts
This road is not the Sea
…And this stupid infernal combustion plastic destroyer can’t possibly be a sailboat, but, wow, this country is freaking huge! Drivetime is the place you go in your head when the[…]
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Spies on Bikes
This is our last day in India in 2020 and what a wild ride it’s been. Our friend Prakash came to visit us this past weekend to say goodbye and[…]
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3,495 days later
We bought (and moved aboard) Nomad on February 9, 2009. We bought (and moved aboard) Cetacea on September 5, 2018…three thousand four hundred and ninety five days later. Watching Nomad[…]
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A farewell to an old friend
In 2009, when we returned to the U.S. from our first adventures in India, we were dead set on getting back on the water in a sailing vessel that we[…]
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RI to ME
From Newport to, well, I think it was still Newport. Third Beach is on the other side of the island, though, and practically abandoned compared to Newport Harbor. And then[…]
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On the job
We sailed off the hook from Dutch Harbor pretty hungry to devour the Western Narragansett one anchor-full at a time. It’s always so satisfying sailing off the anchor. It’s so[…]
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Into the Narragansett
…The fog went away but, like a promise kept, it ultimately becomes a part of the background of life. That morning we rose salty (still, again) from our beds and[…]
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Where’s the Wind?
We don’t want or need to beat up our boat by sailing in gales, but the last few adventures we’ve had involved copious use of the infernalcombustion engine that resides[…]
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Off of the shore
The Chesapeake Bay was so kind…Thanks! We woke up on the boat at anchor in Chesapeake City, Maryland. We boiled water, we ground coffee by hand, we started our infernalcombustion[…]
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