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Category: Life Under Sail

Four days offshore, Beaufort to Fernandina Beach

November 22, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

November 13, 2022 James Life Under Sail

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

November 2, 2022 James Life Under Sail

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!

November 2, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

October 24, 2022 James Life Under Sail

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…

October 19, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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

October 18, 2022 Dena Life Under Sail

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

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

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

September 28, 2022 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

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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New Scotland or what?

September 20, 2022 James Dena's Blog Posts, James' Blog, Life Under Sail

The shadows were getting long like it was autumn but it felt all too soon. The anchorage in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is beautiful looking west to Doctors Island. It’s one[…]

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