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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Two Steps Forward
The most revolutionary act that a person can perform in this country is to be happy.Patch Adams View from Fayaway’s dinner table We are fairly well appointed and prepared now, sitting in this quaint little harbor off the western side of Buzzards Bay. By ratio of sail to power boats, I’m anointing this harbor as …
Island Cars
Here’s an off-the-same-‘ol-road topic we don’t see in the cruising magazines. On the road less travelled, other side of the fence, horse of a different color, flip-side of the coin. Not yet another beautiful sunset. Fun nonetheless. I first read of the fitting term Island Cars in a book called Bucking The Tide, by David …
Plans Are Written In Sand
At low tide, so they say. Especially for us cruisers. And tides occur twice per day! Certainly you’ve seen our waterlogged plans juggling a few times evidenced in this blog, but fortunately not as often as the tides change. Unfortunately, the news we read about lately is a bit more volatile, changing at least as …
Martha’s Vineyard Doesn’t Stink
Herman Melville entered Edgartown Harbor in 1841, after a long voyage aboard the whaling ship Acushnet. Moby Dick was later published in 1851. I'll bet you think this post is about the island southeast of Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. Or maybe from the first sentence perhaps a brief discourse of Herman Melville? Of course, I'd be …
