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To Azores Day 14

August 8, 2023 Dena Boat Projects, Sailing Logs

Monday August 7 Day 14 to Horta…a new day a new storm. This one has teeth and seems even angrier than the last ten of them. We took the 3[…]

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To Azores Day 13

August 7, 2023 Dena Boat Projects, Sailing Logs

Sunday August 6 Day 13 in our neighborhood started with that aforementioned brew…warm and black with a kick of consciousness at the end. The world’s ocean rolls and lulls us[…]

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To Azores Day 2

July 27, 2023 Dena Boat Projects, Electrified, Sailing Logs

Wednesday, July 26 Dena’s 12:30-1 pm watch: The sun, wow…it somehow sucked the wind off the surface of the north Atlantic flow…then it came back up, then…our world breathes like[…]

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Come on, Marlec

June 12, 2023 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, Electrified

So, of all the new technologies we’ve gotten to know and the new battery chemistry and the new…well…everything propulsion and steering that isn’t our sailing rig, the only one to[…]

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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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The Continental South

March 31, 2023 James Boat Projects, James' Blog

Okay so we did it, we made it to the one deadline we had to make this year. The southernmost town of the continental U.S. of (WTAF) A. We pulled[…]

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System failures…

October 6, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

…are no doubt part of the game when it comes to offshore sailing. The offshore passage to Cape Cod from Nova Scotia had a system failure that took us both[…]

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17 Miles for a Bolt

September 4, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

This breaking bolts on an engine that’s 30 years old is getting nerve-wracking. How many more will break – and is it because this particular Yanmar is the ONE model[…]

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Learning Curve

July 25, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Sailing away from the City of Sin in the final week of May gave us our first clue as to the complex shape of our learning curve. We were later[…]

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