Leaving Solomons was awesome! We sailed out of the little town inner-harbor at 4 knots under main alone on a close reach that only broadened as we blasted down the[…]
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Category: James’ Blog
The cruising life
One of my (James’) favorite things in the world is lying at anchor, safely waiting out a gritty weather system. The past few days have been a great opportunity to[…]
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Underway in a big way
Being underway doesn’t get real until you see this! …Absolutely no land in sight. Okay, okay you’re never really out of sight of land in the Chesapeake Bay except for[…]
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BOOM!
We’re getting close and it’s freaking us out! The Go/No-Go list has been checked and re-checked and all systems report as GO! New Starter, Go! New Duel Primary 8D AGM,[…]
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…and just like that,
She’s blasted, She’s barrier coated, She’s faired and painted, …painted, painted and painted! …scrubbed, scraped, pollished and, yep, painted, …painted, …strapped, hoisted, …splashed, …motored and slipped! So let me introduce[…]
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12th Haul Out
…And here we are again in another place altogether doing a thing we know how to do. The big job this time around is the bottom. Wait…that’s always the big[…]
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Living in a place
Every time we start living in a place, our local adventures turn into past ghosts almost immediately. Riding the bike in traffic, hiking across the apartment complex and foraging for[…]
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Flash Cooling
Like most folks in these latitudes we were quite literally hunkering down for the dog days when, like a cruel glimmer of hope, the quicksilver took a southern dive! …And[…]
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Sailing; the reason why
…Of course, like all good sailing adventure stories, it has to start out with a project! Right after we got back from India, on our first trip back into Bacon[…]
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Moving through space
We’ve been here before… Remember the video-meme of the sun and the local planetary system hurling through space and leaving a spiraling, conical wake through spacetime, well… I don’t mean[…]
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