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Around the World in 80 Years…Maybe

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Category: James’ Blog

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[…]

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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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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.[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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Finally the mast!

June 12, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

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

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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Oh that 555!!!

June 6, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail
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…oh yeah, that infernal combustion engine.

June 4, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

…fixed that shit! Put her all back together and sailed to 3’rd beach!

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Oh yeah, the 555!

May 22, 2022 James Boat Projects, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

So we got this incredible machine, the Seatiger 555 windless, from Bacon in Annapolis and…it’s totally awesome and all…but the fact is our boat wasn’t built to accommodate this device.[…]

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