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Solar Downgrade

On December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 By capnchrisIn upgrades & installs4 Comments

Another decision to backtrack has been made, as a result of yet another dim-witty Dumas eleventh hour brain-fart scheme: install a windvane. And of course six weeks is enough time for another major boat project, right? Didn't we learn from our experience three years ago? Should I have trusted the Hydrovane salesperson? All “NO’s”, but …

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Diversions (Traversing Bahamas)

On June 8, 2020September 26, 2022 By capnchrisIn Places, Thoughts3 Comments

So we had left Culebra in our last post. Now we’re nicely making way into our passage northwest - at least for a few days and nights toward the point of East Bahamas marker at 26N 68W. Wind was just aft of starboard beam, and Fayaway is really screaming along at 7-plus knots, flying a …

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St George’s to Jolly

On December 9, 2019January 7, 2020 By capnchrisIn Places, ThoughtsLeave a comment

Jolly Harbor, Antigua that is. And that's from St George's, Bermuda. We had to repeat that today to a couple guys on a holiday from New York. It always seems to take me aback when people are surprised to hear that we sailed here. And yes, to answer another common question, it is only the …

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Rock And Roll

On December 3, 2019January 7, 2020 By capnchrisIn Places, Thoughts, upgrades & installsLeave a comment

Or More Antigua Passage Notes. Decades ago, during one of my very first offshore passages, slogging down the east coast of New England, a familiar Old Salt in a nearby sailing vessel often used the term rock and roll to describe our condition over the radio. He'd say with a twangy drawl, We loooove rock …

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