I realized the other day that the boat has become my home. That may sound silly – of course it’s my home…or of course a boat could never really be a home – but the feeling snuck up on me. When I’m away from Pirat I find myself missing the bunk Lee and I share, […]
Archive for November 2010
Weekend with friends, then alternator death #2 Leave a comment
The first Thanksgiving Leave a comment
Check out our updated map! Go SWE! I couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful Thanksgiving. It was a cool day with some sun and just enough wind. Lee and I left Coinjock, NC around 8:30 in the morning and continued down the Virginia Cut portion of the ICW. My camera could not be resuscitated […]
Plop, camera in the water Leave a comment
The inevitable tragedy finally happened. I dropped my camera in the water. I stumbled on my way to take the helm from Lee and flung my camera case off my hand, where the strap was looped. At least we found out the case floats! Lee managed to turn the boat around in the narrow ICW […]
One way, baby! Leave a comment
Oh yeah, we’re in Norfolk, VA! We are farther south than we’ve ever sailed and this is starting to feel like a one-way trip through territory we’ve never seen before and will probably never see again. There is no turning back. Lee and I are thoroughly converted to cruising life and our hunger for exotic […]
Fingers crossed Leave a comment
Why do I always leave everything till the last minute when it’s time to leave? Ocean City has been nice. It’s kept Lee and I entertained for the past few days while we wait for our new alternator. Now we’re all spread out, settled in, and spoiled by things like internet and nice showers. Tomorrow […]
Give us a break! Leave a comment
This is getting ridiculous. You’ll see what I mean. Enjoying tea and reading my kindle on a nice sail to Cape May. On Saturday we dragged ourselves out of Atlantic City. It was somewhat hard to get moving again after what happened on our way there. Plus, the waves were still HUGE (they actually got […]
Shipwrecked, almost Leave a comment
One of two things is going to happen: either Lee and I are going to get used to crazy, horrifying disasters or we’re going to perish in the ocean. That’s what I’ve decided the fates have in store for us after our latest and greatest adventure. Let me set the scene. We’re motoring South along […]
Might as well go to Manhattan Leave a comment
We’re so close, how can we not stop in New York city? After spending a few fun-filled days on a mooring at the 79th street boat basin during the summer we know it’s an opportunity not to me missed. This was actually a much more difficult decision than I make it out to be. Pirat […]
Rain, rain, go away Leave a comment
The timing couldn’t be better. We pulled into the Housatonic River and picked up a (free!) Housatonic Boat Club mooring yesterday afternoon. This morning, the rain began. We’re in for a couple days of solid rain. The past two jumps down the sound have been uneventful. We left Mystic expecting 15-20 knots and were prepared […]
“I think we need to rethink our life plan.” Leave a comment
Quoting myself, very late on Friday night. One of the handful of pictures I took before things got crazy on Friday. Where do I even begin the account of our sail on Friday? We left Newport at 5 am. It was cold and dark. It got windy as the sun came up. Then it got […]
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