On May 22, 2022, we (Dena and I, James) went sailing. We left the City of Sin, Mass, and pointed the boat at Gloucester with our eyes on the Azores.[…]
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Category: Life Under Sail
The Smallest
…the slowest, the best and absolute finest spaceship on Earth has just added way-too-much power for our immediate needs. …A funny thing about needs and humans. Humans need so fucking[…]
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Electrifying!
We posted local ads on dregslist and facefuck for our diesel engine and left Key West on a sheet of glass covered in salad. Not a breath, a sigh, nor[…]
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A celebration of a life
From 1967 until 1969, my (James’) bio-fam lived in Key West Florida on the Navy base, you know, always the worst place in paradise. But the most amazing thing about[…]
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Free and Easy
We are at loose ends for the first time since the beginning of November, when James’ mom died and we started planning how to get him to her celebration of[…]
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Bending West through the Keys
We took off from Key Biscayne bright and early, having checked the weather forecast again that morning and comparing what they said to what we saw. Sure…looks about right. The[…]
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Southing once again
It’s almost as if Lyle Hess designed the Fatty Knees 8 to plug into the Baba 30! I can’t believe how perfectly this boat fits into our fore triangle! The[…]
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Sometimes…
…the weirdest shit happens! Like that time in Rockland (just a few months ago in July ’22) when the four drunk dudes in a plastic-destroyer rowed up on us in[…]
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On down the ditch…
Jupiter was a two week exploration in patience, a concept I (James) am not very good at. Never have been. I get it. I’ve been telling everyone I know that[…]
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Dog Damn the IC(Fucking)W!
We passed statute mile 1000 this morning just after my (James’s) second watch…just after my first visible-light watch, about two hours after we kedged off the bottom in the southern[…]
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