Telling stories is a lot harder than I (James) ever thought it would be. I mean, you do something, you live through it, you think about the event, you relate[…]
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Category: James’ Blog
From the rooftops
Falling into winter and digging in I (James) discovered a wonderful thing about working in Portland’s skyline firebrand… The view! So whilst performing the duties asked of me by the[…]
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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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A short Pea Soup Adventure
This is what we woke up to this morning and as we weighed anchor the fog only got thicker. We have the tools we need to make a safe passage[…]
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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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Retirement Day
A week ago today was Retirement Day. Again. And hooray! Unloading was the first order of business. James sold his bike via Craigslist, but mine didn’t get any serious bites.[…]
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