From Onset, we considered going to Newport, but the weather didn’t cooperate and we made a great short sailing day out of getting to New Bedford, Mass. Loop that for[…]
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Category: Life Under Sail
The Rarest Moments
We are traveling in the spring weather windows. Gloucester, you’re nice and all. Wow – this is a town that’s absolutely built by and for the working maritime community. Gotta[…]
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Shook Down Hard
Portsmouth, NH, is more town and less rural zone than the Kittery side of the Piscataqua River. The Albacore submarine museum makes for an odd sight on the way to[…]
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The Shake Down
The shake-down cruise is a test and S/V S.N. Cetacea was working well. The electronics were brilliant and all of our recent upgrades were performing perfectly. And then… Look in[…]
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The Shoulder-Season Sailor
Just a few days ago, we were talking again about the fact that we enjoy being shoulder-season sailors. James’ birthday being in the middle of March and mine at 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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Introducing Cetacea
It seemed the right time for a video collection. Cetacea on Approach Cetacea on Deck Galley and Nav Station Main Saloon Forepeak and Head
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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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