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Wintering here
Over a month ago we tossed off the mooring in Salem and headed for Beverly. Not much of an adventure to be sure but we absolutely made the best of it and settled right in. Beverly Port Marina is a run...
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The Six Town Ride
I’m so glad that James took care of the Beverly Port story. I was still wrapped up in getting our money back from them (first she said no refund, then that she would charge us for transient dockage...
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It’s on
So, the past two weekends we finally did a project that we’ve been wanting to do since we got S/V S.N. Cetacea… We isolated our starting battery away from the two house banks and built a place for it...
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Winter’s upon us
…Like Iggy said that Soupy said, ‘do you’re shit in twenty-five words or less'”. We live here in the winter… We live here, in our world… ..And that means here and now. …how’s bout 36.
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We’re floating here
Gliding Between the Heroic Laundry Service and… The Eye-Cicle Queen! We live in this world!
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Geographically inspired
I (James) have a winter problem. My problem with winter in New England isn’t that it’s cold. I don’t really mind the cold that much. My problem is nothing, meaning no one, works and you can’t go...
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I wrote a book
A long long time ago, okay 1983, a friend of mine by the name of Michael O’ Sullivan told me he thought the only two things that could bring human-kind together would be A) an alien invasion or B) a...
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That Holy Shit moment
It’s fun to talk about adventure and it’s always stimulating to hypothesize on the possibilities of profound life changing experiences at sea. Then you start fantasizing, then planning and at some...
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Installing the AET Part 1
One of the biggest set-backs you can come up against when your boat is your workshop/is your home is the weather. Springtime is the worst when it comes to relying on the weather! Last weekend was a...
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Redefining the AET: meet the PET
After a lightbulb moment and a short discussion, we’re renaming our tower. The power we will get from the sun and wind aren’t “alternatives” – they’re primary. So we’re going to quibble and call it...
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Integrating the wind mast with the PET
We’d ordered the mounting kit for our new Rutland 1200 wind generator thinking that we’d use only parts of it. Because of the way the solar panels fit, though, the mid-tower mounting location looked...
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And then I was done
I worked this last 14 months. It wasn’t mostly fixing flat tires, but there was rather a lot of that. This very last flat of my North Shore commute was immediately visible and rather easy to fix....
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Oh yeah, the 555!
So we got this incredible machine, the Seatiger 555 windless, from Bacon in Annapolis and…it’s totally awesome and all…but the fact is our boat wasn’t built to accommodate this device. It’s very...
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When sailing is the only option
All dressed up in the beautiful new Seatiger 555, James and I were raring to go and the weather looked like it might cooperate. Spring forecasts and all, but there was a lot of hope for a fast...
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…oh yeah, that infernal combustion engine.
Okay so, we pulled that sucker apart… …spotted the issue. …fixed that shit! Put her all back together and sailed to 3’rd beach!
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Oh that 555!!!
…moving back and forth in time like you do in history. The shot above is of the Seatiger 555 windless in East Greenwich Bay, our fourth anchorage and proof positive that this system works, perfectly!
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Getting up to date
We’ve been in a strange holding-pattern slash striving-for-progress kind of time. While waiting for our engine parts in Onset, we tried setting up the Monitor only to find out that the Dyneema line...
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Finally the mast!
After searching for over three months to find a shipyard that could and would pull our mast, we were almost desperate and getting turned down was starting to get infuriating. Of course we tried all...
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Mast unstepped
On Monday, nice and early, we pulled into the empty slip almost directly in front of the crane. A salty long-haired guy caught the bow line and somehow managed to help us into the slip without being...
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