Aside from various repairs and maintenance we have made a few major upgrades and improvements. Miscellaneous projects such as rebuilding the windlass motor, repairing moisture saturation, adding improved video sound and a new $14 toaster definitely improve our living quality, but aren’t groundbreaking, so I’ll omit. For new additions and modifications, only time will tell …
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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 …
Cozumel
Up at 0300 for an early flight, we arrived at noon. (While Fayaway is resting, we can get to the islands much quicker than sailing.) Wow, how I love this Caribbean climate. After meeting up with friends, we hopped on a shuttle to find our way to the hotel, checked into our room and enjoyed …
Aqua Alta
Sitting in the Fayaway’s cockpit facing aft, toward the southwest. Taking in all there is in this relatively busy mid-coast Maine town. I hear squawking ospreys, speaking to each other as they circle and perch atop nearby mastheads. I hear a slow rumbling murmur of the Vinalhaven ferry moving its passengers to a nearby island. …
Velocity Made Good
A sailor knows that a boat can’t be sailed directly into the wind, even if that’s where she wants to go. Aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, design and skill determine how a boat will sail, and how close into (toward) the wind a sailboat can go. Velocity Made Good, or VMG, is a sailing term referring to the …
