Remember the cracked rib thing a couple of blogs back? Well as it turned out, a four day offshore adventure a couple of weeks after doing that is taxing…to say[…]
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Category: Life Under Sail
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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ICWooWoo
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is a bizarre lesson in the surreal. …The (all too) real… …And the, “I’m totally done with this shit!” If you’ve been with us you know[…]
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NY-VA Days 2 & 3: go, no-go
I (James) was sailing at night on a black sea of choppy gremlins sneaking across my bow illuminated by the insane but receding Atlantic City. From the time I popped[…]
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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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We fix our shit
Stonington, Connecticut, has a really shitty anchorage! Like in most of New England, all the good anchor spots are littered with moorings, most being empty this time of year. But[…]
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Sailing on…and on…
I (James) was really stoked about this next part of the adventure. Not only could I not wait to use the watermaker again, we were sailing to a place we’d[…]
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About this making water thing
Water rocks. R/O desalinated, drinking-water-filtered water is the best, especially when the watermaker is powered by wind and solar. Water is also very dangerous. When it’s fouled by seeping cracks[…]
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Yarmouth to P-Town
Ocean sailing is truly like a dream. We got up before the sun and made ready in short order. Cetacea had remained ship-shape for our entire Canadian sojourn so making[…]
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Lighthouses and Fiona
Nova Scotia (or some subset of Nova Scotians the makeup of which I cannot really imagine) have designated a certain route around the southern coast as the “Lighthouse Route”. There[…]
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