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Category: James’ Blog

…I kind of miss it.

July 2, 2021 James James' Blog

So we’re still “living in” Salem, Mass, on the boat, on a mooring and there’s more faded blue hair here every day than I ever saw at the Surrealist Magic[…]

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Sprung ’21

May 21, 2021 James Boat Projects, James' Blog

The entire year before we sailed away from the west coast of the U.S. in 2006 was spent on the three essentials of sailing beyond the curvature of the Earth.[…]

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The Descension of Events

April 23, 2021 James James' Blog, Life Under Sail

We’re back on a hook, not THE Hook, mind you, but a hook. A hook I might add, I do not trust. I didn’t build this mushroom anchoring system and[…]

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My craft, my trade, a story…

April 5, 2021 James James' Blog, Life Under Sail

I started shooting pictures at my sisters first wedding in 1978, I was 14 years old. She and her slightly shocked soon to be husband “hired” me to take pictures[…]

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I Believe…

March 23, 2021 James James' Blog, Life Under Sail

I have come to believe the marina industry is a blight on our planet. Another perfect example of run-a-muck capitalism driven by the falsehood of ownership. These so called, Marina[…]

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Realizing Color

November 30, 2020 Dena Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

James’s artistry has taught me (Dena, of course) so much about apprehending the beauty around me. He shows me the world through his photos, which also trains my eye to[…]

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…on the Prodj

October 19, 2020 James Boat Projects, Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

It’s the only work worth doing! When I (James) posed that hypothesis to a woman on the docks in East Hampton, New York, she laughed at me and replied, “Motherhood[…]

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Downeast Treat

August 14, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

One of the best things about being a reader of bloggy things is you don’t have to live through the doldrums! We motored from the Isles of Shoals in New[…]

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Capes and Isles

August 12, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

Rounding Cape Ann has never been simple. This time, it was fog. A thick mess had us sitting tight until it lightened to about a quarter-mile visibility. We didn’t have[…]

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A Mass Bay

August 11, 2020 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog

Back in truly familiar waters, the sail from Onset to Plymouth totally rocked. With the usual on-again-off-again sailing through the Bay we blazed in under main alone, you know, like[…]

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