So here’s a story… A couple of people go to sea for a couple of decades and discover a world dominated by the infernal combustion of one single industry. From[…]
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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts
The Smallest
…the slowest, the best and absolute finest spaceship on Earth has just added way-too-much power for our immediate needs. …A funny thing about needs and humans. Humans need so fucking[…]
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Splashed!!!
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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A celebration of a life
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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Free and Easy
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
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!
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
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
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!
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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