If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he meets with success unexpected in common hours. -Thoreau
Just two short years ago, as Fayaway began dashing eastward across the Atlantic Gulf Stream, a weather pattern called a large low-pressure trough was high above the plain states and making its own way toward the east coast of the United States. We were about 300 miles offshore, en route to the tropical island of …
Continue reading Bermuda Saves Us Again – Part 2 of 3 Delivering Love A’Fayre
While Fayaway is undergoing refitting this winter (see About…), Kelly and I are assisting in yet another delivery of a sailing vessel (Love A’Fayre), from Rhode Island to Tortola, BVI. She’s a very nice Fountaine Pajot Astrea 42 catamaran. Our course will depend upon weather indicators before and throughout the passage. The preferred course (see …
CapnChris & Captain Gordon on his Freedom 36. Gordon's Freedom 36 sloop, with it's crazy “mid-boom” flopping jib, free-standing mast, and somewhat quiet ride, graciously provided us with a fun-filled, enjoyable interim passage from our home-base of Newburyport to Hampton, Virginia. Departure day was chosen about ten days prior, simply because it fit a busy …
Quiet time before sunrise in Vinalhaven. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.John F. Kennedy I awoke early to watch the sunrise on yet another glorious cool, misty day. The water …
I awoke around 0530 on a foggy morning (we’re in Maine after all) to the humming of propellers near our hull, and the faint voices from a captain issuing calls to proceed with throwing out a net. I slid the companionway hatch back just in time to see a fishing boat less than 50 feet …
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