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Category: Life Under Sail

On down the ditch…

January 22, 2023 James Life Under Sail

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!

January 6, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Fiction, Life Under Sail

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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Life in Florida

December 23, 2022 James Life Under Sail

New Smyrna was about as adventurous as its name. The (walk to) laundromat was extraordinarily bad, the food was…ew! The accommodations were what’ev’s, and the anchorage was a complete disaster![…]

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The Moon and Mars

December 15, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Another night where it never got dark! Hold on there, brushfire, we got some story tell’n to do! So we rolled on down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway meaning, we trudged[…]

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The five to four ratio

December 3, 2022 James Life Under Sail

Remember the cracked rib thing a couple of blogs back? Well as it turned out, a four day offshore adventure a couple of weeks after doing that is taxing…to say[…]

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Four days offshore, Beaufort to Fernandina Beach

November 22, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Beaufort was a terribly tight anchorage, which is what we’d heard and why we’d chosen the dubious charms of Morehead City each and every other time we’ve come through the[…]

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ICWooWoo

November 13, 2022 James Life Under Sail

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is a bizarre lesson in the surreal. …The (all too) real… …And the, “I’m totally done with this shit!” If you’ve been with us you know[…]

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NY-VA Days 2 & 3: go, no-go

November 2, 2022 James Life Under Sail

I (James) was sailing at night on a black sea of choppy gremlins sneaking across my bow illuminated by the insane but receding Atlantic City. From the time I popped[…]

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NY-VA Day 1: And off we go!

November 2, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We went to Port Washington on glass water in a thick forbidding fog that engulfed our little world all the way to Manhasset Bay. That’s where the gloom released it’s[…]

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We fix our shit

October 24, 2022 James Life Under Sail

Stonington, Connecticut, has a really shitty anchorage! Like in most of New England, all the good anchor spots are littered with moorings, most being empty this time of year. But[…]

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