One of the biggest set-backs you can come up against when your boat is your workshop/is your home is the weather. Springtime is the worst when it comes to relying[…]
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Category: James’ Blog
That Holy Shit moment
It’s fun to talk about adventure and it’s always stimulating to hypothesize on the possibilities of profound life changing experiences at sea. Then you start fantasizing, then planning and at[…]
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I wrote a book
A long long time ago, okay 1983, a friend of mine by the name of Michael O’ Sullivan told me he thought the only two things that could bring human-kind[…]
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Geographically inspired
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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We’re floating here
Gliding Between the Heroic Laundry Service and… The Eye-Cicle Queen! We live in this world!
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Winter’s upon us
…Like Iggy said that Soupy said, ‘do you’re shit in twenty-five words or less’”. We live here in the winter… We live here, in our world… ..And that means here[…]
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It’s on
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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Wintering here
Over a month ago we tossed off the mooring in Salem and headed for Beverly. Not much of an adventure to be sure but we absolutely made the best of[…]
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Because sometimes this happens…
I used to pretend to love listening to those “Salty ‘Ol Captains Courageous” at West Marine drone on and on about the strange and impossible mishaps that occur on boats.[…]
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Pointing the boat
To have a destination on a sailing adventure is to not actually understand what it means to live underway. I think maybe Chuck Berry understood. I don’t mean to say[…]
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