Rig for sailing, start the Yanmar 3GM, throw off the moorings, S/V Sovereign Nation is sailing away, AGAIN… …Not off into the Sunrise, but rather, for another sunrise altogether, one[…]
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A Decade at Sea!!!
So, on 09/09/1999 Dena and James signed the papers for the sailing vessel Sovereign Nation and effectively sailed off into the sunset… Wow! …Now here we sit at the top[…]
Read moreAn elaboration of sorts…
The century was almost old enough to discard and our Sovereign Nation was in ship shape and Bristol fashion. The event was the celebration of our first anniversary and the[…]
Read moreCrabs (the fun kind)!
So, Saturday July 25th 2009 was the 35th annual Rebel Marina’s Crab Regatta! It was a spectacular sailing adventure and the Willoughby Bay in Norfolk, VA was riddled with hundreds[…]
Read moreSometimes it takes a day or two to process this stuff…
I wrote the story below yesterday to my friend Dean moments after coming back to my home on the Rebel Marina aboard the Sailing Vessel Itinerant… I mutated the story[…]
Read moreOur First Sail
Kept hearing from people that a blizzard could hit today, so we got a second space heater and planned to hunker down for the duration. Instead, we went sailing. Not[…]
Read moreWhere We Are
We are here: N 38° 57.865′, W 076° 17.765′ And google thinks it looks like this: <br /><small><a style=”color: #0000ff; text-align: left” mce_href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ei=5zOaSeq8JY-ctwea7r27Cw&q=N36+57.865+W+076+17.765&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&ll=36.972798,-76.291895&source=embed” xhref=”http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ei=5zOaSeq8JY-ctwea7r27Cw&q=N36+57.865+W+076+17.765&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&ll=36.972798,-76.291895&source=embed”>View Larger Map</a></small> Which is pretty darn[…]
Read moreThis IS the next chapter!
On Friday the 13th in 2009 we signed the paperwork and bought a beautiful new (to us) sailboat henceforth to be called, S/V ITINERANT! …Once again, at sea at last![…]
Read moreWhat you gonna do with…
This was my Journal page on the S/V Sapien site… The above shot was taken one day south of the Tropic of Cancer in Novenber of 2006 on the way[…]
Read moreThe Ocean Blues Again…
The Sailing Vessel Sapien and her crew of two set out once again on the Ocean Blue. At 1600 hours on Friday the 13th day of April in the year[…]
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