There was a mutual, audible gulp between us when we saw that future storm bearing down on us from all our media sources. It sucked! Some said 50 knot gusts[…]
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Category: Life Under Sail
Starting Fires
Starting a fire is the very essence of human technology. If you’ve ever built a fire, you know — it’s an awesome achievement! It’s the fundamental step in the manipulation[…]
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Seth Thomas – It Works!
We got this Seth Thomas striking watch-clock at Captain Jim’s Marine Salvage in Portland, Maine last year when we first made landfall there as a boat-warming present to ourselves. It[…]
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No Longer Pushing Rope
Hands are sensory organs, and the difference to the hand between old and new lines is emotional, encouraging, adventurous. A soft handful of control, thick enough to grip and pull,[…]
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Splashing SVSN Cetacea
Her first haulout was a long one – out last September and in at the beginning of April. It really was the same thing in reverse. The guy who did[…]
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Home
Sometimes our world changes so fast! We left India when Wuhan was a whisper, we left Sallisaw as the coronavirus was an interesting topic and we returned to Covid-19. Oklahoma[…]
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Birthdays
When I was in my 30’s I figured that when I made it past my fifth decade I would give up on celebrating the day of my birth. I was[…]
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This road is not the Sea
…And this stupid infernal combustion plastic destroyer can’t possibly be a sailboat, but, wow, this country is freaking huge! Drivetime is the place you go in your head when the[…]
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A Night at the Opera
We started the day off with a great idly/sambar at Muthoot Homez Akkulam, one of our haunts along the highway. It’s a cool little place across from the big-ass mall[…]
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Homes of the Decade Past
Baltimore, Maryland Essex, Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Edgewater, Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Underway Yarmouth, Maine Portland, Maine South Portland, Maine Underway Groton, Connecticut Noank, Connecticut New London, Connecticut Underway Jersey City, New[…]
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