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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Author: Dena
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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Four days offshore, Beaufort to Fernandina Beach
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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About this making water thing
Water rocks. R/O desalinated, drinking-water-filtered water is the best, especially when the watermaker is powered by wind and solar. Water is also very dangerous. When it’s fouled by seeping cracks[…]
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Lighthouses and Fiona
Nova Scotia (or some subset of Nova Scotians the makeup of which I cannot really imagine) have designated a certain route around the southern coast as the “Lighthouse Route”. There[…]
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Walking Grand Manan
Oh Canada, oh man, we love Canada. The (almost cool) app-and-phone-call clear-in from the Canadian Border Patrol was an unfamiliar and somewhat unsettling experience (who expects that kind of thing[…]
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Mast unstepped
On Monday, nice and early, we pulled into the empty slip almost directly in front of the crane. A salty long-haired guy caught the bow line and somehow managed to[…]
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Getting up to date
We’ve been in a strange holding-pattern slash striving-for-progress kind of time. While waiting for our engine parts in Onset, we tried setting up the Monitor only to find out that[…]
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When sailing is the only option
All dressed up in the beautiful new Seatiger 555, James and I were raring to go and the weather looked like it might cooperate. Spring forecasts and all, but there[…]
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And then I was done
I worked this last 14 months. It wasn’t mostly fixing flat tires, but there was rather a lot of that. This very last flat of my North Shore commute was[…]
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