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Month: July 2015

Linekin to Rockland

July 30, 2015 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We’re not much for crowds, so when we approached Boothbay Harbor, we did it from a slight distance. Leaving Ebencook Harbor, we used the Townsend Gut to avoid going out[…]

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Making our way

July 26, 2015 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Wow. We really have not had internet in the “wilds” of the Down East. We’d known that T-Mobile wasn’t great, but…wow. So we’re behind on posting, but rest assured that[…]

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Not a Great Sailing Day

July 19, 2015 Dena Life Under Sail

This is one reason not to bring a schedule on a sailboat. We’re relaxing, reading mostly, for the second day in a row. I’m happy for another rest day after[…]

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Searching for Ohana

July 17, 2015 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

After our calamitous approach to Portland Harbor and subsequent safe anchorage, we decided to dedicate the following day to finding Ohana, the boat that gave us 5 gallons of diesel[…]

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In a Fog

July 15, 2015 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Currents run about an hour and a half behind tides in the Piscataqua River and its side creeks and channels. In order to leave before the current turned against us,[…]

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Time Warp

July 14, 2015 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

In the last post, we ended in peaceful distress. The next morning, we met Roger, neighbor to Tom, owner of a Bob Perry designed Passport, who offered us his mooring.[…]

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Gloucester to Kittery

July 13, 2015 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

I (Dena) weighed anchor at 0830, grateful for a sandy bottom that left our anchor and rode cleaner than it went in. Nothing like James’ mucky mess from Boston Hah-buh.[…]

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Boston to Gloucester

July 10, 2015 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

The two days we spent in East Boston, working on a 50′ 1974 Grand Banks – a wooden pleasure-trawler, not a sailboat, not even close – were a great investment.[…]

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And then we went sailing

July 6, 2015 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Wessagussett is a lovely place, barring the wake created when hundreds of plastic destroyers caroom from the Fore and Town Rivers.  Fourth of July weekend was topsy-turvy on the good[…]

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Rasping a hole!
Fiberglassing an upside down boat
...raining again.
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Poor little guy!
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