All Hands On Deck   Adventures on land and at sea

Back to Mohegan Bluffs on Block Island It is definitely fall in Maine. Summer ended right on schedule and cool, drizzly weather set in. We’ve had a couple days of indian summer but most days are chilly. The leaves on the trees are changing. This is the first New England fall I’ve experienced! It’s incredible […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I always intended to start another blog focusing on cooking aboard Pirat. It’s hard enough to maintain one blog with spotty internet so we’ll see if I can manage two. My friend Danielle of Danielle in Brazil inspired me as well. Her cooking blog is a nice addition to her fascinating musings about teaching and […]