Hurricane schmurricane! My dad tells me I shouldn’t tout the hurricane’s disappointing showing because I’ll summon another one on us. Oh well. Lee and I spent the night on the boat when Earl was supposed to show up last week. We didn’t quite make it out there before it started raining torrentially. The night brought […]
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Moving right along Leave a comment
Earl approaches Leave a comment
Maine has a strange kind of time-warp going on. It seems like forever since we brought the boat up here with my dad and sailed to Acadia with Doug. The weeks go by slowly but days pass in a flash. Pirat is happily anchored in front of the house. Lee has been going down his […]
Here, there, and everywhere Leave a comment
Sailing to and in Maine I was not lying when I told my former boss at the DMNS that I have not finished revising my thesis for publication because I’ve been really busy. True, I’ve been busy doing mostly fun things. Those fun things have given me only snippets of time to work on my […]
Busy, busy, busy: RI to ME with Dad and now to Acadia with Doug Leave a comment
Boat status report: auto pilot removed for repair, transmission seals replaced, oil leak fixed, water pump leak fixed (will our bilge finally be fluid free?!) Current location: Anchored in front of Lee’s parents house in Maine. Next destination: Acadia National Park, Maine Crew: Me, Lee, Lee’s friend Doug I’m so behind (on life, not just […]
Katahdin Backpacking Pictures Leave a comment
Katahdin backpacking trip I know this isn’t sailing, but our backpacking trip in Baxter State Park deserves to be in the blog too. It was so gorgeous! Our accommodations were so luxurious! We had a lean-to with an outhouse every night but we were still out in the woods all by ourselves. The forest was […]
Lazy days Leave a comment
Our cat, Monster, knows how to relax. He is living with Lee’s parents in Maine so we have been enjoying his company since we arrived earlier this month. Monster and Rascal (the little, gray tabby Lee’s mom got shortly after adopting Monster) prowl around the big yard and surrounding forest, hunting bugs and anything else […]
Long overdue pictures and some time to catch our breath Leave a comment
It’s been a while! I’ve been busy with all kinds of things since we left Block Island. Here are pictures from as far back as our passage out of the Chesapeake. Out of the Chesapeake and back to RI Lee, Pirat, and I left Block Island for Newport on the 5th, spent a couple days […]
4th of July on The Block Leave a comment
It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since my last post but we’re certainly in a different place. Our stay in New York lasted another couple of days. Lee and I walked around, did a bit of shopping, saw Toy Story 3, and stumbled onto the Gay Pride parade on our way to West […]
Proving ourselves to ourselves Leave a comment
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 […]
It’s hot. I’m tired. Lets go back to Rhode Island. Leave a comment
Moving South in the Chesapeake The plan has always been to sail back to Rhode Island after we reached the bottom of Chesapeake bay. Now we’re definitely ready to go. It is so hot. Any kind of movement or activity is so exhausting that we’ve relished the long days of slow sailing across the bay […]
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