(A shameless plug for selling our beloved boat; not any more). Looking back from the stern, hundreds of miles offshore. No matter how wonderful she is we have reasons for wanting a different boat. Mostly because we’re changing our lifestyle - again, and definitely not to be away from the water. When we are near …
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More Random Boat Stuff
More weird stuff we have set up aboard Fayaway. Maybe a better name would be "tips and tricks" or a second installment of the popular post “Seven doo dads”? For other boaters the ideas might be obvious and not worth pointing out. We can’t claim credit for some, and more likely they’d been acquired or …
Canadian Stepping Stone
Ok folks. Are you sitting down? “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”— Kurt Vonnegut Sailor Kelly and I are taking a year off from living on the water and heading north to friendly Ontario, Canada, to embark on a different adventure - this time via …
Delivering Love A’Fayre – Part 1 of 3
While Fayaway is undergoing refitting this winter (see About…), Kelly and I are assisting in yet another delivery of a sailing vessel (Love A’Fayre), from Rhode Island to Tortola, BVI. She’s a very nice Fountaine Pajot Astrea 42 catamaran. Our course will depend upon weather indicators before and throughout the passage. The preferred course (see …
Fish Tale
I awoke around 0530 on a foggy morning (we’re in Maine after all) to the humming of propellers near our hull, and the faint voices from a captain issuing calls to proceed with throwing out a net. I slid the companionway hatch back just in time to see a fishing boat less than 50 feet …
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