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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Category: Life Under Sail
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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Manteo to Ocracoke
I kinda like these blog posts with titles that say we’ve traveled. Being so far north at the beginning of January wasn’t part of the plan, but the southwesterlies that[…]
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What a year…
…Although one could potentially say that about, well, any year, this one in particular was of special significance to us. 2015 was the year we took off! Generally speaking neither[…]
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Norfolk to Manteo
Well, we’ve done it again. Gone so long without a blog post that a real meaty update would be ridiculously long. So here are the bones, shreds of meat attached[…]
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