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Smooth Sailing Is Hard to Write
We just recently saw ourselves in a distorted mirror. I (James) was talking to my friend and woodworking client, Don, who expressed his understanding, based on our blog posts, that we were miserable....
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The Lighthouse Keeper of Seguin Island
We sailed our home into the snug harbor of Seguin Island, made fast to the last of the moorings, and rowed in to the rocky beach that was midway through the rising tide. We’d read in our cruising...
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Just another day at the office
Remember this?! Over the last three weeks we’ve been working our little tails off (between rain storms and Dena beginning and completing the first draft of her third novel) repairing our port-side toe...
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Lost and Found in the Milky Way
After almost a month in-and-out of our anchorage in Somes Harbor, we set sail for the depths of our Down East adventures. We headed southeast out of the fjord to the Island of Little Cranberry, shagged...
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180 degrees of wake up
The summer comes to a clapping close when the winds turn from the southwest to the northeast. Just like that, we’re heading south again. Right after we picked up Dena’s new books from the local post...
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A day at Haut
Throwing off the mooring pennant in Stonington was easy. That’s the most dangerous thing about shagging on a moron-ball, they’re too easy! You sneak in, pick up the pennant, look around to make sure...
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Chasing Lighthouses
It’s always been one of the problems with our travels, we don’t like to go back! Going back doesn’t have to mean going backwards but sometimes it’s hard to get that out of our heads, unless of course...
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Portland to P-Town
I (James) really do have to admit that after two weeks of living under the highway, …in the flight path, and next to the construction site, it was a stretch, even for me, to say we were enjoying our...
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P-Town to Onset
P-Town was a raging success! We anchored for the first three days right outside the city breakwater. On the second night, though, we got our little butts spanked by an early winter screamer that...
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Onset to New London
Onset, Massachusetts is a great place to shag a ball in the depths of fall. The winds have been so mighty and fluky that we really did have to tuck back into Onset harbor for a few days to shake off...
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New London to Baltimore
…One Giant Leap New London was the perfect place to duck in, provision up, and sit out a powerful fall nor’easter that blew up the river Thames like nothing we’d ever seen before! Humbling is a good...
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On to Rebel
Thanksgiving eased past with a good day and a great meal. With inclement weather patterns in full swing, we pulled the hook from the muck of Baltimore’s inner harbor on a dreary day and headed south...
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Norfolk to Manteo
Well, we’ve done it again. Gone so long without a blog post that a real meaty update would be ridiculously long. So here are the bones, shreds of meat attached where necessary. Leaving Rebel Marina at...
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What a year…
…Although one could potentially say that about, well, any year, this one in particular was of special significance to us. 2015 was the year we took off! Generally speaking neither one of us are really...
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Manteo to Ocracoke
I kinda like these blog posts with titles that say we’ve traveled. Being so far north at the beginning of January wasn’t part of the plan, but the southwesterlies that trapped us in Manteo finally gave...
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The North Carolina ICW
The sail from Ocracoke to Oriental was one of those “Sailing Adventures” that we (sailors) sometimes talk about with that far away look in our eyes, lots of deep breaths, and long pauses that end with...
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The Story of Fuck
I (James) read a book in 1992 called “Fuck Yes”. It was by someone using the pseudonym Wing F. Fing and in this very funny good read, the author tells the story of a man who dedicates his life to...
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North Again
Not back, just north. On a cold, frosty morning, I (James) hauled the anchor with my new gloves – yay! – and, just like that, we were underway. I (Dena), at the helm, grabbed the camera because it was...
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Hook down, Annapolis
Hi, remember us? We’re the crazy boat couple that set off about 17 years ago on an adventure of discovery around the world in 80 years! Well, we tried to find employment in North Carolina right before...
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Agonizing Reticulation
A glorious year… April 15 2015 until this very minute, we’ve been living underway! Awesome year, man, but now we gotta go to work. Dena started her job on Thursday, it snowed on Saturday… …And on...
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