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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts

A celebration of a life

March 21, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

From 1967 until 1969, my (James’) bio-fam lived in Key West Florida on the Navy base, you know, always the worst place in paradise. But the most amazing thing about[…]

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What might be a night heron, perched on the bow line of the Schooner Jolly Rover

Free and Easy

March 14, 2023 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, Life Under Sail

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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Bending West through the Keys

February 27, 2023 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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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Dog Damn the IC(Fucking)W!

January 6, 2023 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Fiction, Life Under Sail

We passed statute mile 1000 this morning just after my (James’s) second watch…just after my first visible-light watch, about two hours after we kedged off the bottom in the southern[…]

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The Moon and Mars

December 15, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Another night where it never got dark! Hold on there, brushfire, we got some story tell’n to do! So we rolled on down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway meaning, we trudged[…]

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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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NY-VA Day 1: And off we go!

November 2, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We went to Port Washington on glass water in a thick forbidding fog that engulfed our little world all the way to Manhasset Bay. That’s where the gloom released it’s[…]

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Sailing on…and on…

October 19, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

I (James) was really stoked about this next part of the adventure. Not only could I not wait to use the watermaker again, we were sailing to a place we’d[…]

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Yarmouth to P-Town

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

Ocean sailing is truly like a dream. We got up before the sun and made ready in short order. Cetacea had remained ship-shape for our entire Canadian sojourn so making[…]

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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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