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Sovereign Nations

Around the World in 80 Years…Maybe

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Sovereign Nations

Author: James

Ancestral Azores

September 14, 2023 James Electrified, James' Blog, Life Under Sail, The Azores

We woke up early to sail from Faial to São Jorge because we had no idea what it would take to get that hook off the bottom. It was a[…]

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29 days at home

August 26, 2023 James Life Under Sail

Wrapping up into usable sound bites and elevator pitches an adventure such as our trans-Atlantic passage needs another kind of author altogether, maybe an author who thinks they don’t write[…]

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A sail across an ocean in the Verse

July 14, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

999.9 nautical miles in 13 days, 3 hours and 30 minutes and just like that, we’re in Bermuda. The End! Kidding! We did it. We sailed to Bermuda from Fk.[…]

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Fk. Lauderdale again?!

June 25, 2023 James Life Under Sail

You know, three weeks ago when we finished the propulsion project we were so ahead of the storms that it was totally comical. The wind rose from the southeast every[…]

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The proving grounds

June 18, 2023 James Cat Stuff, Dena's Blog Posts, Electrified, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

…and then we went sailing! Marathon was such a fucking drag in the end that we couldn’t help but laugh on our way out of there. We’d been in that[…]

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S/V SN-E

May 31, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, Electrified, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

So here’s a story… A couple of people go to sea for a couple of decades and discover a world dominated by the infernal combustion of one single industry. From[…]

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Our last year at sea

May 24, 2023 James Life Under Sail

On May 22, 2022, we (Dena and I, James) went sailing. We left the City of Sin, Mass, and pointed the boat at Gloucester with our eyes on the Azores.[…]

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The Smallest

May 9, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, Electrified, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

…the slowest, the best and absolute finest spaceship on Earth has just added way-too-much power for our immediate needs. …A funny thing about needs and humans. Humans need so fucking[…]

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Electrifying!

April 25, 2023 James Boat Projects, Electrified, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We posted local ads on dregslist and facefuck for our diesel engine and left Key West on a sheet of glass covered in salad. Not a breath, a sigh, nor[…]

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Splashed!!!

April 5, 2023 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

To a job well done! We both woke with a strong dedication to finish the job-at-hand: the rebuild of S/V S.N. Tursiops. We were so close to splashing that sucker.[…]

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