Skip to content
Sovereign Nations

Sovereign Nations

Around the World in 80 Years…Maybe

  • Dena
  • James
  • Music by Dura Mater
  • S/V S.N. Cetacea
    • S/V S.N. Nomad
    • S/V S.N. Sapien
    • S/V Sovereign Nation
Sovereign Nations

Category: Dena’s Blog Posts

New Scotland or what?

September 20, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

The shadows were getting long like it was autumn but it felt all too soon. The anchorage in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is beautiful looking west to Doctors Island. It’s one[…]

Read more

Walking Grand Manan

September 6, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Oh Canada, oh man, we love Canada. The (almost cool) app-and-phone-call clear-in from the Canadian Border Patrol was an unfamiliar and somewhat unsettling experience (who expects that kind of thing[…]

Read more

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[…]

Read more

Back in Somes Harbor

August 22, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Way back in 2015 we broke the boat coming around the bottom of Mt. Desert Island at the Bass Harbor Bar. We came up on the bar hard and fast[…]

Read more

Home, a ways away from home

August 11, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We sailed to P-Town from Onset after setting a Cetacea Cape Cod Canal speed record of 11 knots. The sail from Sandwich to P-Town was beautiful and exciting and a[…]

Read more

A way back…way back.

July 31, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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[…]

Read more

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[…]

Read more

Pointing us!

July 21, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

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.[…]

Read more

What?!

June 19, 2022 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

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[…]

Read more

Mast unstepped

June 14, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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[…]

Read more

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 33 Next Posts»

Portfolio

Man-0-War harbor
Goodbye Mom
Venus and Jupiter
James and his brother, Larry
America 2.0
Night Heron?
Meow See Tongue
Gato's Throne-able.
Anchored in Key West

Follow Us

rssyoutubeflickr

Categories

  • Boat Projects
  • Cat Stuff
  • Dena's Blog Posts
  • Dena's Fiction
  • India
  • India 2019/20
  • James' Blog
  • James' Fiction
  • Life Under Sail

Boating

  • Boat Bits
  • Brion Toss Riggers
  • Good Old Boat
  • Interview with a Cruiser
  • Lin and Larry
  • Newly Salted
  • NOAA – Free Digital Charts
  • NOAA – General
  • Noonsite
  • OpenCPN
  • Practical Sailor

Chandleries - Marine Hardware

  • Bacon Sails
  • Captain Jim's Marine Salvage
  • Hamilton Marine
  • Lummi Fisheries Supply
  • Marine Consignment – Wickford, Mystic

Family

  • Dean's World
  • Dena Hankins – Author

Friends

  • Spitfire Forge
  • SV Exit

Good Shit

  • Dear Coke Talk
  • Dena Hankins – Author
  • Red Chillies
  • Sociological Images

Archives

March 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Feb    
WordPress Theme: Poseidon by ThemeZee.