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Around the World in 80 Years…Maybe

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Author: Dena

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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About this making water thing

October 18, 2022 Dena Life Under Sail

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

September 28, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

September 6, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

June 14, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

June 8, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

May 27, 2022 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

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

May 20, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts

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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Integrating the wind mast with the PET

May 19, 2022 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

We’d ordered the mounting kit for our new Rutland 1200 wind generator thinking that we’d use only parts of it. Because of the way the solar panels fit, though, the[…]

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Redefining the AET: meet the PET

May 17, 2022 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts

After a lightbulb moment and a short discussion, we’re renaming our tower. The power we will get from the sun and wind aren’t “alternatives” – they’re primary. So we’re going[…]

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