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A farewell to an old friend
In 2009, when we returned to the U.S. from our first adventures in India, we were dead set on getting back on the water in a sailing vessel that we could customize into a boat that could take us around...
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Introducing Cetacea
It seemed the right time for a video collection. Cetacea on Approach Cetacea on Deck Galley and Nav Station Main Saloon Forepeak and Head
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3,495 days later
We bought (and moved aboard) Nomad on February 9, 2009. We bought (and moved aboard) Cetacea on September 5, 2018…three thousand four hundred and ninety five days later. Watching Nomad ride to her...
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From the rooftops
Falling into winter and digging in I (James) discovered a wonderful thing about working in Portland’s skyline firebrand… The view! So whilst performing the duties asked of me by the aformentioned, er,...
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The Shoulder-Season Sailor
Just a few days ago, we were talking again about the fact that we enjoy being shoulder-season sailors. James’ birthday being in the middle of March and mine at the very beginning of December, we only...
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The Shake Down
The shake-down cruise is a test and S/V S.N. Cetacea was working well. The electronics were brilliant and all of our recent upgrades were performing perfectly. And then… Look in the lower left corner...
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Shook Down Hard
Portsmouth, NH, is more town and less rural zone than the Kittery side of the Piscataqua River. The Albacore submarine museum makes for an odd sight on the way to the city rec center (with hot tub,...
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The Rarest Moments
We are traveling in the spring weather windows. Gloucester, you’re nice and all. Wow – this is a town that’s absolutely built by and for the working maritime community. Gotta go. We walked from East...
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Healing all the way home
From Onset, we considered going to Newport, but the weather didn’t cooperate and we made a great short sailing day out of getting to New Bedford, Mass. Loop that for four hours and you’ll know how our...
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Flipper Abaft
So we’re here in 3Mile Harbor, Springs, Long Island, New York anchored in 8 feet of muddy sand. We’ve settled into our lives the best we can and have come to truly appreciate our time at anchor alone....
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We’re Underway!
Dena got back from Oklahoma on Sunday, and we went to work on Monday and Tuesday. We woke up on Wednesday and went for a nice long bike ride into East Hampton. On the way there I (James) snapped. We...
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The Plan
New London was a lesson in the reconstitution of our lives, breaking us down to life’s constituent parts once again. Walking, seeing, feeling, tasting, hearing and smelling everything as completely...
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Avanti
It’s old home week for this crew. Some old posts are linked multiple times because we tend to do catch-up posts…yeah, kinda like we’re doing here. From Hamburg Cove to Essex to Old Saybrook, we really...
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Gone Global
After a day at anchor in our favorite gunkhole in Jersey City we started to get a little paranoid about the safety of the dinghy, one of the main reasons I (James) hate our inflatable dinghy, I think...
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Writing in Asia
The first time we came to India was way back in 2008 and that move inspired us to actually start the blog that you are reading today. It was a momentous decision that led to one of the most inspiring...
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The year, the decade…the fuck?!
I love this retrospective shit, it’s just so… I don’t know, everything! …And indeed the teens were everything! We started the decade off in Baltimore, Maryland, and learned some hard lessons about...
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Homes of the Passing Decade
Baltimore, Maryland Essex, Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Edgewater, Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) Underway Yarmouth, Maine Portland, Maine South Portland, Maine Underway Groton, Connecticut Noank,...
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A Night at the Opera
We started the day off with a great idly/sambar at Muthoot Homez Akkulam, one of our haunts along the highway. It’s a cool little place across from the big-ass mall construction site and it’s also one...
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Telling stories in India
Telling stories is a lot harder than I (James) ever thought it would be. I mean, you do something, you live through it, you think about the event, you relate to it and then you tell it as a story…...
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Spies on Bikes
This is our last day in India in 2020 and what a wild ride it’s been. Our friend Prakash came to visit us this past weekend to say goodbye and we all got a big laugh out of our new conspiracy theory....
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