All Hands On Deck   Adventures on land and at sea

Well, we’re not in Block Island. We are also not in stifling Chesapeake Bay any more. We are not in the middle of the ocean either. Yesterday we picked up a mooring at the 79th St. Boat Basin in the Hudson River off Manhattan. Sailing all the way back to RI offshore didn’t quite go […]

I have been thinking and writing a lot over the past couple weeks about what I miss about life on the mainland. That partly means Denver life and partly Rhode Island marina life. In both places, I relied on many routines but also had access to more of a variety of activities and resources. I […]

Annapolis and Washington D.C. Someone recently described what Lee and I are doing as a permanent vacation. I agreed at the time but that’s not really an accurate description. Most days we are so busy doing things that need to get done or actively sailing the boat that we don’t have time for vacationesque activities. […]

Sailing with Jeff Chestertown and back to Baltimore Baltimore 1 Last night I was sitting in Pirat’s cockpit, listening to a street performer and music from the fountain on Baltimore’s inner harbor waterfront. Both of these soundtracks became very annoying. The street performer DJ plays the same song for his robot/mime to dance to over […]

Sailing into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor last week brought on lots of “ooh”s, “ahh”s, and “look!”s. It was amazing to be able to anchor or dock right in the middle of the city. We tied up to the city docks, which are quite inexpensive for what they are, where you are, and compared to everywhere else […]