Category: James’ Blog

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]