Climbing out of the bunk at 0800h I feel the tingling of the ice as I lightly brush my toes against the hull on my way to the galley to[…]
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It’s Canton,
Hon, if you lived here… …You’d be drunk already!”
Read moreDay 3 and the winds are howling!
Oh yeah, Day 1… We cast off at 0730h and reached the mouth of the Salt Ponds by 0800h. Clipping hard on a NNE heading, with a single reef in[…]
Read moreThe Adventure Continues…
Rig for sailing, start the Yanmar 3GM, throw off the moorings, S/V Sovereign Nation is sailing away, AGAIN… …Not off into the Sunrise, but rather, for another sunrise altogether, one[…]
Read moreA Decade at Sea!!!
So, on 09/09/1999 Dena and James signed the papers for the sailing vessel Sovereign Nation and effectively sailed off into the sunset… Wow! …Now here we sit at the top[…]
Read moreCrabs (the fun kind)!
So, Saturday July 25th 2009 was the 35th annual Rebel Marina’s Crab Regatta! It was a spectacular sailing adventure and the Willoughby Bay in Norfolk, VA was riddled with hundreds[…]
Read moreSometimes it takes a day or two to process this stuff…
I wrote the story below yesterday to my friend Dean moments after coming back to my home on the Rebel Marina aboard the Sailing Vessel Itinerant… I mutated the story[…]
Read more…Ok, So I’m not an art dealer!
Once again I gave it my all and once again I could not make it happen with the tools at hand. And really that’s all’s to be said about my[…]
Read moreHunkering Down…
It’s amazing how the time flies when one sets his mind to “the long haul”. We started the re-build project on the port side saloon and just like that it’s[…]
Read moreThe Circumnavigators
We have entered a contest to photograph the entire planet Earth under sail! gnment.com/the-ideas/popeye/the-circumnavigation-of-every-land-mass-on-the-planet-earth (Dead, old link) Please go to the above link and vote for us! It’s a way[…]
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