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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Category: Life Under Sail
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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Just a perfect springtime sail
Hitting the ground running meant feeling almost as if the last five months didn’t exist, almost… Of course, the fact that every bite I take doesn’t feel like an ice-pick[…]
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A Great Circle
We sailed a great circle over the last week. Not in the traditional sense of navigating along the shortest path, but in the equinoctial Chesapeake sailor’s way. And we looked[…]
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Home again, home again…
We have definitely arrived! Our crew here in the MRE dressed our boat up like an Easter doll for us! The guys at Coastal and Bacon, and our very own[…]
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A story of a raw water pump
So we up-n-decided to pull up anchor and head-on in to Dena’s Marina as soon as we both got off work! (which is working out famously, BTW) We rowed out[…]
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Agonizing Reticulation
A glorious year… April 15 2015 until this very minute, we’ve been living underway! Awesome year, man, but now we gotta go to work. Dena started her job on Thursday,[…]
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Hook down, Annapolis
Hi, remember us? We’re the crazy boat couple that set off about 17 years ago on an adventure of discovery around the world in 80 years! Well, we tried to[…]
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North Again
Not back, just north. On a cold, frosty morning, I (James) hauled the anchor with my new gloves – yay! – and, just like that, we were underway. I (Dena),[…]
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The North Carolina ICW
The sail from Ocracoke to Oriental was one of those “Sailing Adventures” that we (sailors) sometimes talk about with that far away look in our eyes, lots of deep breaths,[…]
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