Vinny started out in a box. Actually four boxes. Cardboard too, but built to take the punishment that UPS dishes out for being shipped from the UK to Hampton, Virginia. Vinny arrives at the dock (almost) ready for crew service! Vinny is also known as a wind-actuated auto-steering rudder pilot mechanism. “Huh? Ok, so now …
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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 …
Offering Maine Solace
We left Newburyport last Saturday afternoon, regretfully missing our yacht club ‘s party and annual fireworks gathering. But the summer is waning, and downeast Maine has been calling. We arrived at Tenant’s Harbor after a pleasant overnighter, just short of where technically downeast Maine is designated. But it’s close enough for a “base camp”, where …
Forty Islands – One Winter
Perusing Fayaway’s logbook, I realize that we visited nine countries and stepped four bare feet upon forty (40) distinct islands between late November and May (‘22-‘23 season). At only one sandy spit did we not actually anchor - because it was so crowded we motored across the busy thoroughfare with Korykory.) Wow, we have so …
SV Fayaway 