A recurring theme on our passages here in the Chesapeake is what’s the next creek we’ll visit. I’ve started drafting a couple blog posts about creeks that we’ve visited so far, and we often discuss our next possible anchorage, and so this recurring term caused pause. My kindly sarcastic mind often bends and stretches 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 …
Places we’ve never been
As we start this adventure it is worth noting why we are heading out, it's not to get away from anything or anyone. Quite the contrary. We already miss our friends and family. They are life's most precious assets. Running down Buzzards Bay We are going purely for the adventure of "discovering" new places and …
Life on Half-tide Rocks
Our mooring at the American Yacht Club is near a feature of the Merrimack River called Half-tide Rocks. As you probably guessed, there are rocks that appear at about half tide and more rocks appear as the tide ebbs. Normally the rocks are home to lazy seagulls and the poorly evolved cormorants (really, a water …
Fitting Out
Working in the cockpit early in May 2019 Our full-time "job" since April has been outfitting. Fayaway is a 1984 Wauquiez Pretorien that we purchased early in 2017, The prior owners did a great job cosmetically updating her but she remained almost factory-new, in terms of her limited spartan accoutrements. In essence, she had very …
SV Fayaway 