Fayaway left you last time from the point of our recent arrival at Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. We endured a sporty passage after month-long frolicking at one of our most favorite cruising destinations: The Ragged Islands. A perfect reaching day, with 15-20 knots just forward of the beam. Approximately due north from Clarencetown, …
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Yanmar Yarn
Tale of a used diesel motor sale. For each our last three sailboats, we’d purchased new auxiliary engines. Yup, gluttonous upgrades. Moored on the tumultuous Merrimack River, we've accepted the fact that to get to and from the ocean, unless you're a hard-core purist and or an exceptionally patient sailor, you're smart to employ a …
Chesapeake Rendezvous Galore
We waved goodbye to good friends, dropped our American Yacht Club mooring lines and departed Newburyport early on a sunny morning. After overnight anchoring stops at Block Island, the Delaware River mouth, and catching the early tide north, we traversed west through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. We turned south again making another stop near …
Passions and Projects
40+ year-long professional career, dutifully fulfilled, is sunsetting. But I’m turning the page altogether now, and the Sun also rises onto our 40+ foot sailboat. It was a jolly good run. Kelly made her leave five years ago - just waiting for me to trade one passion for another. So, we segue away from a …
Sailing Onomatopoeia
A kind reader recently commented at how he enjoys the more mundane of my postings. Enjoy! On a tracking post (pre-April ‘23) I defined Sailing Perfection - just the right amount of wind and calm-enough seas to make-way an easy 7+ knots. During another such bout of fantastic bounding across the ocean, distantly offshore, reclining …
SV Fayaway 