Sailing instruments and WSO100 report. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.August Hare Ok, I lied; said I wouldn’t write for a while. Sorry. This post I had started and had left simmering in that draft folder since we were last moored here in the Merrimack back in September (2019). A …
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A Real Passage
Our first real passage on Fayaway was completed yesterday. While certainly not our first overnight trip, we made a typical 54 hour slog, where the was forecast not entirely accurate. Fayaway got us here safely, very salty, and best of all (difficult to believe with the pounding we took), nothing broke! We left on a …
Smuttynose and Weather
Map borrowed from Wikipedia; Isles of Shoals is actually part of Kittery, Maine We spent a couple nights aboard Fayaway at the Isles of Shoals last week, for our first time away from Newburyport since splashdown only a few weeks before. We had been out day sailing, and had participated in several club races this …