It’s fun to talk about adventure and it’s always stimulating to hypothesize on the possibilities of profound life changing experiences at sea. Then you start fantasizing, then planning and at[…]
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Author: James
I wrote a book
A long long time ago, okay 1983, a friend of mine by the name of Michael O’ Sullivan told me he thought the only two things that could bring human-kind[…]
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Geographically inspired
I (James) have a winter problem. My problem with winter in New England isn’t that it’s cold. I don’t really mind the cold that much. My problem is nothing, meaning[…]
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We’re floating here
Gliding Between the Heroic Laundry Service and… The Eye-Cicle Queen! We live in this world!
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Winter’s upon us
…Like Iggy said that Soupy said, ‘do you’re shit in twenty-five words or less’”. We live here in the winter… We live here, in our world… ..And that means here[…]
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It’s on
So, the past two weekends we finally did a project that we’ve been wanting to do since we got S/V S.N. Cetacea… We isolated our starting battery away from the[…]
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Wintering here
Over a month ago we tossed off the mooring in Salem and headed for Beverly. Not much of an adventure to be sure but we absolutely made the best of[…]
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Because sometimes this happens…
I used to pretend to love listening to those “Salty ‘Ol Captains Courageous” at West Marine drone on and on about the strange and impossible mishaps that occur on boats.[…]
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Pointing the boat
To have a destination on a sailing adventure is to not actually understand what it means to live underway. I think maybe Chuck Berry understood. I don’t mean to say[…]
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The summer prodj
I was so jealous of Dena last fall in Boston. While I was rediscovering how truly shitty the marina industry can be Dena was kill’n-it on the new color scheme.[…]
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