We stayed on Block Island for an (I [James]don’t give a fuck) amount of time and ultimately set our sights for that down-eastern reach we were just fantasizing about. We[…]
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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts
Learning Curve
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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Pointing us!
Sailing, that’s what we’re doing! Without touching the wheel! She was driving herself, but she was sluggish. We both knew this boat could perform better but it just wasn’t happening.[…]
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What?!
We showed up at 0630 on day three and dove into the project like a couple of giddy school kids. In our recap of the mast project the night before[…]
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Mast unstepped
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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Finally the mast!
After searching for over three months to find a shipyard that could and would pull our mast, we were almost desperate and getting turned down was starting to get infuriating.[…]
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Getting up to date
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
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
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
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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